Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Travel
(asked on 6th December 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much his Department spent on travel that was not standard class in each of the last five years.
Over the last 5 years the Department, and its predecessors, spent the following amounts on non-standard class travel:
| ex-DECC | ex-BIS* | Total | |||
Year | First Class Rail | Business/First Class Air | First Class Rail | Business/First Class Air | First Class Rail | Business/First Class Air |
2011/12 | £3,382 | £223,519 | £52,803 | £1,401,638 | £56,185 | £1,625,157 |
2012/13 | £9,309 | £167,187 | £21,955 | £1,527,987 | £31,264 | £1,695,174 |
2013/14 | £6,837 | £155,825 | £21,672 | £1,801,748 | £28,509 | £1,957,573 |
2014/15 | £3,319 | £211,120 | £17,992 | £1,100,481 | £21,311 | £1,311,601 |
2015/16 | £11,906 | £60,025 | £14,901 | £944,133 | £26,807 | £1,004,158 |
Total | £34,753 | £817,676 | £129,323 | £6,775,987 | £164,076 | £7,593,663 |
*Figures include spend by UK Trade & Investment (which is now part of the Department for International Trade) and policy directorates which are now part of the Department for Education.