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Departmental Motor Vehicles

Volume 498: debated on Tuesday 27 October 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much his Department spent on hire vehicles in each of the last five financial years. (291613)

Information is provided for the two financial years since the Ministry's formation.

The expenditure on hire vehicles for 2008-09 is:

£

The Ministry of Justice HQ

731,311

HM Courts Service

661,236

Tribunals Service

16,078

Total

1,408,625

The expenditure on hire vehicles for 2007-08 is:

£

The Ministry of Justice HQ

829,740

HM Courts Service

838,488

Tribunals Service

18,885

Total

1,687,113

The Office of the Public Guardian and the National Offender Management Service Agency cannot separately identify expenditure on vehicle hire from within their accounting system and their expenditure is not included. Furthermore, the figures provided may be incomplete because there may be expenditure on hire vehicles assigned to generic travel and subsistence codes which cannot be separately identified from the accounting system.

To collate the information for the constituent parts of Government that were merged to form the Ministry of Justice for the years 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07 would incur disproportionate cost.