Departmental Expenditure Grant Shapps To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much was spent by his Department on food and alcohol for its staff working out of office in each year since 2001-02. Gillian Merron It is the policy in the Department for Transport and its agencies that staff are not reimbursed for expenditure on alcoholic beverages. Reimbursement for food is not recorded separately in the Department and the majority of agencies, but forms part of the rules for day and night subsistence allowances. Subsistence costs, and specific food costs where available, are included in the following table. Two agencies, GCDA and DSA cannot separate travel and subsistence, and so a total figure including food, accommodation, and travel is shown. Information about food costs alone would be available only at disproportionate cost. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |2001-02 |2002-03 |2003-04 |2004-05 |2005-06 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |DfT(C) | | | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total subsistence allowance |— |332,027 |356,590 |346,878 |365,442 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |GCDA1 | | | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total travel and subsistence |204,729 |210,385 |254,352 |260,038 |192,172 | 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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |DSA | | | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total travel and subsistence |3345,324|3317,559|3,760,000|4,840,000|5,560,000| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |VOSA | | | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total subsistence allowance |— |— |358,232 |378,902 |442,565 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |DVLA | | | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total subsistence |— |247,890 |321,220 |367,400 |392,670 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |VCA | | | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Food |2,917 |3,976 |8,347 |5,510 |4,660 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1 GCDA joined DfT in November 2005. 2 Available only at disproportionate cost. 3 DSA changed their accounting procedure for 2003-04, resulting in the apparently higher figure.| | | | | | 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