Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Taxis

(asked on 17th October 2022) - 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 taxi cabs for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in each of the last three years.


Answered by
Dean Russell Portrait
Dean Russell
This question was answered on 26th October 2022

Expenditure on taxi cabs was as shown in the following table. Taxi expenditure between Ministers and civil servants is not held centrally and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

Taxi cabs expenditure

2019/20

2020/21

2021/22

(a) ministers and (b) civil servants

£148,226

£20,632

£38,545

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