To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much his Department paid to the Government Car and Despatch Agency in each of the last five years; how much it has spent on such payments in 2009-10; and what proportion of such payments was made in respect of the Government Car Service. (316421)

This Department and its predecessors have paid the following amounts to the Government Car and Despatch Agency for the use of the Government Mail Service:

Costs of ministerial cars are reported annually to Parliament by my noble Friend the Secretary of State for Transport through written ministerial statement and are available in the Libraries of the House.