Department for Transport: Official Cars
(asked on 5th November 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people in his Department have been entitled to use the Government Car Service in each year since 2009-10.
This question was answered on 10th November 2015
During the period 2009-10 to date, the following numbers of ministers have been entitled to use Government cars:
2009-10 | 4 |
2010-11 | 4 |
2011-12 | 4 |
2012-13 | 4 |
2013-14 | 4 |
2014-15 | 5 |
2015-16 | 5 |
As a result of a series of changes, including closure of the Government mail service, overall operating costs have fallen from £20.956m in 2010/11 to £6.325m in 2014/15. During the same period the number of vehicles in the GCS for use by ministers have fallen from 227 to 78.