Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many journeys Ministers of his Department have made using the Government Car Service; and how many such journeys were for the transportation of a red box.

The Department has one ministerial car which is shared on a daily basis by all the Department's Ministers for journeys when conducting official business.

The car may be required to transport ministers from their home to attend to departmental business, the Red Box and papers. The Ministerial Code states that ministers are permitted the use of a government car for official business and for working on official papers during journeys between home and work. See page 23, paragraph 10.12 of the Code. Click link at http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/ministerial-code-may-2010.pdf

This does not include information relating to the frequency of particular types of journeys.