To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what contracts his Department has with private hire taxi companies; and what expenditure his Department has incurred against each such contract in each of the last three years. (300833)

The Department has spent the following amounts through formal and informal contracts with taxi companies over the last three fiscal years.

Staff will also pay taxi fares themselves in the course of official business and claim the costs back through the T&S system, figures from this show the following expenditure over the last three years: