Defence written question – answered at on 9 July 2007.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much was spent by staff in his Department via departmental (a) credit, (b) procurement and (c) fuel cards in each of the last three years.
Information extracted from the Financial Management Shared Service Centre database covering spend on departmental credit, procurement and fuel cards in each of the last three financial years is set out below.
In November 2006, the MOD withdrew its Corporate Credit Card facility and replaced it with the Government Procurement Card. The credit card figures provided in the following table reflect this policy decision and show payments for and the Corporate Credit Card up to December 2006 only.
Government procurement card spend | |
Financial year | Payments (£)( 1) |
2004-05 | 168,594,451 |
2005-06 | 202,499,078 |
2006-07 | 218,631,506 |
(1 )Including VAT. |
Fuel card spend | |
Financial year | Payments (£)( 1) |
2004-05 | 17,552,800 |
2005-06 | 20,265,338 |
2006-07 | 20,571,169 |
(1 )Including VAT. |
Credit card spend | |
Financial year | Payments (£)( 1) |
2004-05 | 14,045,907 |
2005-06 | 14,976,250 |
2006-07(2) | 4,246,626 |
(1) Including VAT. (2) Up to December 2006. |
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