Department of Health and Social Care: Travel

(asked on 14th January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has spent on (a) taxis, (b) first class train tickets and (c) business class air travel in each of the last four years.


Answered by
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Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 22nd January 2019

The information is provided in the following table.

2015

2016

2017

2018

Taxis

£194,944

£121,603

£85,762

£28,731

Data Source: General Ledger (GL) account code analysis

First Class Train Tickets

£31,539

£22,743

£7,109

£4,724

Data Source: tRIPS System

Business Class Air Travel

£25,878

£35,939

£15,456

£55,047

Data Source: tRIPS System and Income notification forms


Notes:

  1. Years are calendar years 1 January to 31 December.
  2. Rail figures calculated based on invoice date and amount paid.
  3. Air figures calculated based on invoice date and fare paid.
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