Department for Transport: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution

(asked on 4th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department's publication of data on spending over £500 using a government procurement card in August 2023, what the (a) location and (b) purpose was of the ministerial visit for which a car was hired from Network Executive Ltd on 3 August 2023.


Answered by
Anthony Browne Portrait
Anthony Browne
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 11th December 2023

The spend relates to a Ministerial visit to the North East. The Secretary of State travelled between several locations in Darlington and Teeside to meet with local stakeholders and visit a range of transport-related sites, including meeting with the winners of the Tees Valley hydrogen transport hub competition.

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