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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Travel (6 December 2016)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much his Department spent on travel that was not standard class in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)

Answer

Over the last 5 years the Department, and its predecessors, spent the following amounts on non-standard class travel:

ex-DECC

ex-BIS*

Total

Year

First Class Rail

Business/First Class Air

First Class Rail

Business/First Class Air

First Class Rail

Business/First Class Air

2011/12

£3,382

£223,519

£52,803

£1,401,638

£56,185

£1,625,157

2012/13

£9,309

£167,187

£21,955

£1,527,987

£31,264

£1,695,174

2013/14

£6,837

£155,825

£21,672

£1,801,748

£28,509

£1,957,573

2014/15

£3,319

£211,120

£17,992

£1,100,481

£21,311

£1,311,601

2015/16

£11,906

£60,025

£14,901

£944,133

£26,807

£1,004,158

Total

£34,753

£817,676

£129,323

£6,775,987

£164,076

£7,593,663

*Figures include spend by UK Trade & Investment (which is now part of the Department for International Trade) and policy directorates which are now part of the Department for Education.


Answered by:
Margot James (Conservative)
13 December 2016

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