Departmental Travel

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how much his Department spent on (a) car hire, (b) train travel, (c) air travel, (d) hotels and (e) restaurant meals for (i) Ministers and (ii) staff in his Department in each of the last five years. (289971)

The tables show the Scotland Office spend on car hire, rail and air travel. The Office does not separately record the spend on hotels and restaurant meals.

*Ministers*
£
	Car hire¹	Rail	Air
2004-05	8,042	374	2,822
2005-06	16,559	1,223	5,509
2006-07	5,797	1,745	5,270
2007-08	14,237	1,358	7,518
2008-09	18,439	1,381	23,313
¹ This does not include the Government Car Service London costs for which I refer the hon. Member to the written ministerial statement issued on 16 July 2009, Official Report, column 79WS.

*Staff*
£
	Car hire	Rail	Air
2004-05	2,896	25,632	74,331
2005-06	4,051	32,244	73,431
2006-07	4,644	37,150	70,263
2007-08	3,549	31,100	56,946
2008-09	637	22,045	87,323

Volume 497: debated on Wednesday 14 October 2009