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.
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 |
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