Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Railways

(asked on 12th October 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much his Department spent on first class train travel for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in (i) 2020, (i) 2021 and (iii) 2022.


Answered by
Dean Russell Portrait
Dean Russell
This question was answered on 21st October 2022

The Department’s policy is that staff should always seek to book standard class rail travel for Ministers and Civil Servants, and only by exception should first class rail travel be permitted. Expenditure on first class train travel was as shown in the following table. For 2022, the amounts shown are to the end of August only.

First Class Train travel

2020

2021

2022

(a) Ministers

£5,168

£3,923

£3,011

(b) Civil Servants

£627

£3,452

£2,694

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