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date	11/12/2014
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Travel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 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.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	218474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The table below sets out information for the Core Department in respect of financial years 2009-10 to 2013-14 (the last complete year for which audited information is available).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The system the Department had in place for booking rail and air travel in the period prior to May 2012 did not provide management information on the class of travel. Information on first class train tickets and business class air travel up to and including April 2012 is therefore not held by the Department, and the figures for 2012-13 in this table reflect eleven rather than twelve months’ expenditure.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Some journeys use different classes of ticket for different legs of the journey. These are known as mixed tickets and have been excluded from these figures as it is not possible to identify the element relating to business class travel.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>£’000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>(a) Taxis</strong></p></td><td><p>480</p></td><td><p>229</p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p>72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>(b) First Class Train Tickets</strong></p></td><td><p>--</p></td><td><p>--</p></td><td><p>--</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>(c) Business Class Air Travel</strong></p></td><td><p>--</p></td><td><p>--</p></td><td><p>--</p></td><td><p>174</p></td><td><p>201</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 17/12/2014 17:04:05 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

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registered interest
date	11/11/2014
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Travel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what total amount her Department spent on ministerial travel by (a) the Government Car and Despatch Agency and (b) other car hire in (i) 2007-08, (ii) 2008-09 and (iii) 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Salisbury
tabling member printed	John Glen
uin	214274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>(a) This information has already been published and can be found at:</p><p>(i) <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm080722/wmstext/80722m0008.htm" target="_blank">http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm080722/wmstext/80722m0008.htm</a></p><p>(ii) <a title="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm090716/wmstext/90716m0009.htm" href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm090716/wmstext/90716m0009.htm" target="_blank">http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm090716/wmstext/90716m0009.htm</a></p><p>(iii) <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm101028/wmstext/101028m0001.htm#10102827000372" target="_blank">http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm101028/wmstext/101028m0001.htm#10102827000372</a></p><p>(b) Due to the way payments are recorded on Core Defra’s finance system, it is not possible to distinguish the costs of Ministerial car hire from the costs of cars hired by civil servants. Such a breakdown could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p>The table below therefore lists the value of all Departmental payments in respect of non-GCDA car hire in financial years 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>Spend on Other</strong></p><p><strong>Hire Cars (£)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2007-08</strong></p></td><td><p>59,711</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2008-09</strong></p></td><td><p>35,530</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong></p></td><td><p>25,168</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 17/11/2014 13:17:42 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	4051 label Biography information for John Glen