Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what total amount her Department spent on ministerial travel by (a) the Government Car and Despatch Agency and (b) other car hire in (i) 2007-08, (ii) 2008-09 and (iii) 2009-10.

The total amount spent on Ministerial travel by the Government Car and Despatch Agency has already been published and can be found at:

(i) http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm080722/wmstext/80722m0008.htm

(ii) http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm090716/wmstext/90716m0009.htm

(iii) http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm101028/wmstext/101028m0001.htm#10102827000372

Information regarding expenditure on other car hire, such as impromptu taxi hire, was not held by the Department centrally and can be provided only at disproportionate cost.