Written question asked by Jonathan Ashworth (Labour) on Thursday, 10 January 2013, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 14 January 2013. It was answered by James Brokenshire (Conservative) on Thursday, 28 February 2013 on behalf of the Home Office.

Taxis

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much her Department spent on taxis in 2011-12.

[137309]

Answer

The Home Office spent £325,207.78 on taxis during 2011-12 just one third of the sum which it spent in 2008-09, under the previous Administration. Due to the restructuring of the Home Department over the past years, we do not have details for Identity and Passport Service, Criminal Records Bureau and National Fraud Authority for 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11 and the figures for these years do not include such organisations.

	Taxis spend (£)
2011-12	325,207.78
2010-11	483,357.96
2009-10	777,740.35
2008-09	1,005,132.37

In addition the Home Office taxi policy summary states that staff should avoid using taxis wherever possible, using instead public transport, such as, where available, train, bus or tube and will be reimbursed for taxi fares only if the line manager is satisfied that the cost was incurred out of necessity.

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Type: Written question
Reference: 137309; 559 cc600-2W
Session: 2012-13
Subjects: Home Office Taxis
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk

Taxis

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