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To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Royall of Blaisdon on 30 April (WA 71) concerning the cost of hire cars for staff of the Northern Ireland Office, what is the monthly cost in each year for which the information was supplied in the Answer. [HL3374]
The following table shows how much the Northern Ireland Office, excluding its agencies and executive NDPBs, paid to suppliers of private hire cars in each month of the financial years since 2000-01 (rounded to nearest £'000), where costs have been charged to the private hire car expenditure code.
In working through the detail for this response, we have identified an element of miscoding whereby other travel costs have been charged to the private car hire expenditure code. The costs in the previous response were therefore overstated by £120,000. This has been adjusted in the figures below.
£’000 00-01 01-02 02-03 03-04 04-05 05-06 06-07 07-08 08-09 April 17 4 23 33 20 24 28 35 9 May 19 1 11 20 26 25 16 36 6 June 23 6 28 18 37 22 39 33 0 July 31 8 29 35 38 21 9 9 12 August 17 17 16 18 24 47 57 38 5 September 10 6 12 18 27 33 12 5 13 October 20 10 16 47 30 23 28 15 4 November 16 13 34 26 59 29 20 20 5 December 6 1 7 31 25 36 23 5 3 January 32 20 36 22 20 35 39 7 4 February 1 1 14 42 31 19 22 17 3 March 29 22 26 41 27 28 19 7 19 Total 221 109 252 351 364 342 312 227 83