Department for Education: Taxis
(asked on 25th June 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many private hire cars his Department has used since 2015; how long each journey was; and what the cost of those journeys were to the public purse.
This question was answered on 14th July 2020
The table below provides the information requested relating to the use of private hire cars by the Department since 2015.
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | Totals |
No. of Private Hire Cars | 3568 | 3313 | 3525 | 4576 | 3576 | 959 | 19,517 |
Rental Days | 5416 | 4870 | 5094 | 6817 | 5160 | 1373 | 28,730 |
Total Annual Mileage | 1,217,012 | 1,156,713 | 1,373,307 | 2,249,283 | 1,702,628 | 683,244 | 8,382,187 |
Total Cost | £208,766 | £189,879 | £205,389 | £263,760 | £198,893 | £52,110 | £1,118,797 |