PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Travel (11 December 2014)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department has spent on (a) taxis, (b) first class train tickets and (c) business class air travel in each of the last five years.
Asked by:
Lucy Powell (Labour)
Asked by:
Lucy Powell (Labour)
Answer
The amounts spent on the various categories in question are tabled below:
Travel type | 2010-2011 | 2011-2012 | 2012-2013 | 2013-2014 | 2014-2015 *1 |
Taxis | £52,816 | £70,272 | £63,019 | £26,004 | £16,177 |
First class train tickets | *2 | *2 | £52,842 | £67,841 | £55,490 |
Business class air travel | £5,556 | £17,743 | £13,365 | £16,658 | £26,793 |
We always strive to keep costs as low as possible and get the best out of available funds.
*1 from 1 April 2014 to 30 November 2014
*2 Rail data for 2010-11 and 2011-12 did not give sufficient and consistent granularity to provide information for class of travel. A different supplier was used to do that in 2012 onwards.
Answered by:
Nick Gibb (Conservative)
17 December 2014
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