Transport written question – answered at on 1 July 2004.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport
(1) if he will list the travel costs incurred by (a) his Department and its predecessors and (b) each Minister within his Department, for each of the last 10 years;
(2) how much his Department spent on ministerial travel by (a) car, (b) train, (c) aeroplane and (d) helicopter, in each of the last 10 years.
In respect of overseas travel by Ministers, since 1999 the Government has published an annual list of all visits overseas undertaken by Cabinet Ministers costing £500 or more during each financial year. The Government has also published on an annual basis the cost of all Ministers' visits overseas. Copies of the lists are available in the Libraries of the House. These report information reaching back to 1995–96. Information for earlier years could only be obtained at disproportionate cost and in some cases will no longer be held. Information for 2003–04 will be published in due course.
The Department for Transport was formed on
29 May 2002- 31 March 2003 | (a) 1,606,589 | (b) 83,518 |
1 April 2003- 31 March 2004 | (a) 1,919,678 | (b) 121,567 |
Information concerning costs incurred by Ministers alone could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
My Hon. Friend the Minister of the Cabinet Office has asked Nick Matheson, Chief Executive of the Government Car and Despatch Agency to write to the right hon. Member with details of the cost of Ministerial vehicles provided to this Department.
Information about the mode of transport used by Ministers on departmental business is not held centrally. Ministers use a variety of public transport services when undertaking departmental business.
All ministerial travel is undertaken in accordance with the rules set out in the Ministerial Code and Travel by Ministers, copies of which are available in the Libraries of the House.
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