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Departmental Taxis

Volume 501: debated on Wednesday 25 November 2009

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what contracts his Department has with private hire taxi companies; and what expenditure his Department has incurred under each such contract in each of the last three years. (300827)

HM Treasury has had contracts with two taxi companies in the past three completed financial years. The following table sets out the total expenditure on each.

£000

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

Premier Despatch Ltd., London1

168

139

216

1st Goldstar Taxis, Norwich

8

13

1 Premier Despatch Ltd was acquired by Addison Lee in February 2009