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Ministry of Defence

Answer

Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what his Department's spending was in each of the last two years with the shipping lines (a) P&O, (b) Nippin Yusen Kaisha, (c) Mitsui Osaka Shosen Kaisha, (d) Orient Overseas Container Line and (e) Mediterranean Shipping Corporation. [217315] Mr. Ingram: The Ministry of Defence has no requirement to retain spend information against individual shipping lines. Also, while some bookings may be made direct with shipping lines, others are placed through agents/freight-forwarders and spend will be recorded against them and not the shipping lines used. As the MOD operates a financial regime of disaggregated budgets, bookings can be made by units throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. For these reasons the spend requested is not held centrally or in a form which could be easily extracted and without disproportionate cost. The only spend information readily available is that against P&O shipping companies for invoices submitted through the Defence Bills Agency which is shown in the table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Financial £ million 2002-03 2.697 2003-04 2.143 2004-05 11.677 1 To date. _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

217315; 431 c605W;431 c601W

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Contracts Expenditure Government departments Freight Ministry of Defence Shipping P&O Mitsui OSK Lines Mediterranean Shipping Company NYK Line Orient Overseas Container Line

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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