PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Travel (11 December 2014)

The Home Office is performing well in reducing spending while protecting and improving our services. Against an 09/10 baseline, Government has saved £1.4billion through centralising arrangements for common goods and services.

Since 2009/10 we hve reduced the use of taxis by over 30% and we have cut spending on first class rail travel by 92% since 2010/11. Between 2006-2010 and 2010-2014, we have cut spending on taxis by £1.4m, on first-class rail by £3m, and all air travel by £4m.

The spend for taxis, first class train tickets and business class air travel in the last five years are as follows.

Taxis*
2009-2010 £768,623.66
2010-2011 £531,192.09
2011-2012 £318,944.83
2012-2013 £534,167.57
2013-2014 £529,919.39


First Class Train Tickets**
2010-2011 £203,884.12
2011-2012 £26,051.22
2012-2013 £23,232.63
2013-2014 £22,934.14


Business Class Air Travel***
2010-2011 £678,187.04
2011-2012 £861,537.43
2012-2013 £667,298.69
2013-2014 £1,010,037.59

It is not possible to separately identify the cost of first class train tickets and business class air travel in 2009/2010.

Answered by:
Dame Karen Bradley (Conservative)
12 February 2015