Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to the public purse was of providing hire cars for officials of his Department based at (a) Richmond House, London and (b) Quarry House, Leeds in 2015.

Spend as identified from vehicle hire car category data held in the Department’s Business Management System invoice expenditure for the 2015-16 financial year is £5,419, however, it does not specify whether originating from either Quarry House or Richmond House. To establish the existence of the required detail would attract disproportionate costs as all individual invoice records would need to be searched.