Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to his Department’s transparency data online publication of spending over £500 using a government procurement card, what was the purpose of the payment of £5,787.30 made to PrivateFly Ltd. on 30 April 2021.
The payments made to the merchant ‘EVERYTHING BRANDED’ were for the following purposes:
The payment to the merchant ‘PRIVATEFLY LTD’ was for a private flight for a prisoner transfer to Ireland.
We are content that the referenced payments were subject to normal MoJ controls and in line with government procurement card policy and was an appropriate use of public money.