Departmental Official Cars

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of providing official cars for the use of (a) Ministers and (b) officials in the last 12 months. (301182)

I refer the hon. Member to the written ministerial statement I made on 16 July 2009, Official Report, columns 79-80WS about the contracted cost of ministerial cars in 2008-09. The cost of providing official cars for senior officials for the same period is as follows:

Department	2008-09 charge (£)
BERR	71,600
Cabinet Office	132,000
DECC	34,600
DCSF	69,300
DFID	67,300
DFT	71,400
DWP	26,100
Health	144,000
Home Office	65,900
HMIC	128,000
HMT	67,100
OS&T	66,900

Volume 501: debated on Wednesday 2 December 2009