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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Answer

Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what his estimate is of the cost of (a) ministerial cars and drivers and (b) taxis for his Department in each of the last two years. [200844] Mr. Rammell: The information is as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £ Financial Year 2002-03 Radio Taxis (Black Cabs) 150,028.36 Mastercars 146,244.85 Raffles (Hanslope Park) 202,891.01 Total spend on taxi contracts in Financial Year 2002-03 499,164.22 Financial Year 2003-04 Radio Taxis/Addison Lee 125,590.46 Mastercars 103,207.04 Raffles 183,371.18 Total spend on taxi contracts in Financial Year 2003-04 412,168.68 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. To give estimates of the cost of taxis for our overseas missions could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Mr. Nick Matheson, Chief Executive of the Government Car and Despatch Agency has at the request of my hon. Friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office (Mr. Miliband) written to the hon. Member with details of the cost of ministerial vehicles provided to this Department in 2003-04. I also refer the hon. Member to the reply the Minister for the Cabinet Office gave him on 10 January 2005, Official Report, columns 85-87W.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

200844; 429 c1019W;429 c1018W

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Costs Government departments Ministers Taxis Travel Foreign and Commonwealth Office Official cars

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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