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	registered interest
	date	17/10/2022
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Taxis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much his Department spent on taxi cabs for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	63941
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2022 answer text <p>Expenditure on taxi cabs was as shown in the following table. Taxi expenditure between Ministers and civil servants is not held centrally and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Taxi cabs expenditure</p></td><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>2021/22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(a) ministers and (b) civil servants</p></td><td><p>£148,226</p></td><td><p>£20,632</p></td><td><p>£38,545</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Dean Russell question first answered 26/10/2022 16:25:44 answering member 4812 label Biography information for Dean Russell
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1521322

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2022
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Railways
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much his Department spent on first class train travel for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in (i) 2020, (i) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	61747
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2022 answer text <p>The Department’s policy is that staff should always seek to book standard class rail travel for Ministers and Civil Servants, and only by exception should first class rail travel be permitted. Expenditure on first class train travel was as shown in the following table. For 2022, the amounts shown are to the end of August only.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>First Class Train travel</p></td><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>2022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(a) Ministers</p></td><td><p>£5,168</p></td><td><p>£3,923</p></td><td><p>£3,011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(b) Civil Servants</p></td><td><p>£627</p></td><td><p>£3,452</p></td><td><p>£2,694</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Dean Russell question first answered 21/10/2022 14:07:24 answering member 4812 label Biography information for Dean Russell
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1491447

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2022
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Agency Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much his Department has spent on (a) agency workers and (b) agency retainer fees in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	41935
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2022 answer text <p>The Department’s Agency Staff spend is published annually in BEIS Annual Report and Accounts <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-annual-report-and-accounts-2020-to-2021" target="_blank">here</a> under note 3 ‘Staff costs’. Agency spend is shown as financial years in the ‘Wages and Salaries’ line under the ‘Others’ column, representing non-permanent core BEIS staff. Annual spend on Agency spend is not held centrally and can only be obtained disproportionally.</p><p> </p><p>Spend relating to financial year 2021-22 will be published later this year. BEIS Annual Report and Accounts are laid in Parliament once they have been certified by the Comptroller &amp; Auditor General (C&amp;AG).</p><p> </p><p>We do not pay agency retainers as our policy is only to use Crown Commercial Framework contracts.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Jane Hunt question first answered 06/09/2022 14:45:24 answering member 4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett