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Office of the Secretary of State for Wales

Answer

Mr. Flight: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what the cost was to his Department for (a) ministerial cars and drivers, (b) taxis, (c) train travel, (d) the use of helicopters, (e) airline tickets and (f) chartered aeroplanes in each year since 1997. [123073] Mr. Hain: The Wales Office was created in July 1999. (a) I refer the hon. member to the reply which he received from Mr. N Matheson of the Government Car and Dispatch Agency (a copy of which can be found in the Libraries of the House of Commons) which addressed this issue. (b) Cost to the department of taxis _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £ 1999-20001 310 2000-01 1,266 2001-02 2,851 2002-03 796 20032- 912 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 From July 1999 2 To date These figures exclude any amounts spent on taxis, black cabs and licensed hackney carriages outside departmental contracts and reclaimed by officials as travel and subsistence expenditure. That information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. (c) Cost to the department of trains _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £ 1999-20001 35,239 2000-01 62,121 2001-02 84,423 2002-03 124,035 2003- 67,895 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 From July 1999 2 To date (d) and (f) The Wales Office has never used helicopters nor chartered planes. (e) Cost to the department of air line tickets _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £ 1999-20001 105 2000-01 6,851 2001-02 5,283 2002-03 695 20032- 95 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 From July 1999 2 To date

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

123073; 413 c478-9W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Aviation Costs Aircraft Driving Government departments Helicopters Railways Taxis Travel Official cars Wales Office

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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