Departmental Travel Justine Greening To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how much his Department spent on (a) car hire, (b) train travel, (c) air travel, (d) hotels and (e) restaurant meals for (i) Ministers and (ii) staff in his Department in each of the last five years. Ann McKechin The tables show the Scotland Office spend on car hire, rail and air travel. The Office does not separately record the spend on hotels and restaurant meals. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |£ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Car hire1|Rail|Air| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2004-05 |8,042|374|2,822| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2005-06 |16,559|1,223|5,509| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2006-07 |5,797|1,745|5,270| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2007-08 |14,237|1,358|7,518| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2008-09 |18,439|1,381|23,313| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1 This does not include the Government Car Service London costs for which I refer the hon. Member to the written ministerial statement issued on 16 July 2009, Official Report, column 79WS.|||| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- |£ | --------- | |Car hire|Rail|Air| --------- |2004-05|2,896|25,632|74,331| --------- |2005-06|4,051|32,244|73,431| --------- |2006-07|4,644|37,150|70,263| --------- |2007-08|3,549|31,100|56,946| --------- |2008-09|637|22,045|87,323| ---------