Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 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.

Information on expenditure on the Government Car and Dispatch Agency is published annually in a Written Ministerial Statement and can be found in the Official Record:

2007/08 (Column 118WS):
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm080722/wmstext/8072
2m0008.htm#08072253000045

2008/09 (Column 80WS):
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm090716/wmstext/9071
6m0009.htm#09071651000059

2009/10 (Column 23WS):
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm101028/wmstext/1010
28m0001.htm#10102827000372

The Home Department does not use other car hire outside of the Government Car and Dispatch Agency for Ministerial travel.