Scotland Office: Travel

(asked on 27th January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Scotland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department has spent on (a) taxis, (b) first class train tickets and (c) business class air travel in each year since 2010-11.


Answered by
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David Mundell
This question was answered on 10th February 2016

The Scotland Office spend on air, rail and taxi travel since 2010-11 is shown below:

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

Air

£73,376

£141,601

£171,483

£131,538

£158,897

Rail

£32,314

£30,492

£47,694

£57,487

£55,718

Taxi

£14,946

£19,967

£20,967

£23,845

£27,165

The Scotland Office does not separately record information and expenditure on first or business class travel. It is Scotland Office policy not to use first or business class travel for officials. All ministerial travel is undertaken by the most efficient and cost effective way, in accordance with the Ministerial Code, a copy of which is available in the Library of the House.

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