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Taxis

Answer

The Ministry of Justice's (MoJ) accounting systems do not record expenditure on taxis separately from other forms of travel and subsistence. This is also true of the Ministry's predecessor departments, the former Department for Constitutional Affairs and Lord Chancellor's Department. It would incur disproportionate costs to examine thousands of individual expense claims and Government Procurement Card records held locally to isolate expenditure on taxis.Some information is available for central functions within the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) and the former Office of Criminal Justice Reform (OCJR) for the period 2005-06 to 2007-08 from Home Office systems. As accounting records were migrated to MoJ's systems in November/December 2008, expenditure for 2007-08 is not for the full year.

National Offender Management Services Centre
	£000 (rounded)
2005-06	64
2006-07	72
2007-08	89

Office for Criminal Justice Reform
	£000 (rounded)
2005-06	121
2006-07	14
2007-08	15

All travel by Ministry of Justice staff members and Ministers is completed in line with the published rules for official travel and subsistence within the staff handbook. The rules are in accordance with the guidelines set out in the Civil Service Management Code.The MoJ's policy on staff use of taxis states that staff""may only claim reimbursement of taxi fares where there is no other suitable form of public transport or if you have heavy luggage to transport or where the saving in official time is important""

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

12977; 515 c584-5W

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Taxis Ministry of Justice

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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