Department for Transport: Drinking Water

(asked on 23rd January 2018) - View Source
Questioner
Tim Farron Portrait
Tim Farron
(Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much money his Department has spent on bottled water in each year since 2010.

Answered by
Nusrat Ghani Portrait
Nusrat Ghani
Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
This question was answered on 30th January 2018

The central Department for Transport and the DVLA and VCA executive agencies have not incurred any expenditure on bottled water since 2010.

The DVSA and MCA executive agencies have incurred the following expenditure since 2010:-

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

£809

£3,150

£2,819

£3,616

£1,268

£2,675

£3,910

£4,496

The vast majority of the spend above has been incurred on the large water dispenser bottles which are used on watercoolers. The empties are returned to the supplier for reuse/refilling.

The spend for one of our Executive Agencies for 2010-11 is not available due to their catering supplier having changed in 2011.

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