Lord Bates
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Lord Bates Excerpts(11 years, 7 months ago)
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Earl Attlee
My noble friend makes an important point. I do not even use public transport to get to the Department of Transport. I walk; it takes me 10 minutes exactly. The important thing is that we have reduced the size of the ministerial car fleet from about 200 to 92.
Lord Bates
Will not my noble friend consider increasing the number of cars available to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, so that it can travel widely communicating the news that we have had the fastest growth in GDP, by 1%, over the past quarter and that employment is at a record level in this country?
Earl Attlee
My noble friend is ingenious as well. Government cars are issued to Ministers when they are needed.