Department for Education: Travel

(asked on 6th December 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on travel that was not standard class in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 14th December 2016

The table below outlines ‘non-standard’ travel in each of the last five financial years.

Non-standard travel includes:

Rail (incl. Eurostar Bookings): First Class, Business Class, Premium Economy & Mixed bookings (multiple ticket bookings for which we are unable separate the class of travel).

Flights: First Class, Business Class & Premium Economy

The Department’s Policy is to allow First Class bookings where;

  • Disability or health reasons mean that an employee would not be able to secure suitable facilities in standard class;

  • There are good grounds for security concerns – e.g. significant risk of unwarranted attention from the Press or the public;

  • Colleagues are travelling with a Minister who is travelling first class;

  • The overall cost of the first class ticket is less than the overall cheapest ticket for standard class.

Department for Education

Non Standard Class Travel Spend

Financial Year

2011-12

£191,146.28

2012-13

£182,339.93

2013-14

£224,505.75

2014-15

£225,776.31

2015-16

£129,944.07

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