Ministry of Justice: Charter Flights

(asked on 27th October 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on chartered flights for (a) ministers, (b) civil servants and (c) prisoners in (i) 2022 and (ii) since 2010.


Answered by
Mike Freer Portrait
Mike Freer
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 4th November 2022

The answer given to the question on 4 November 2022 provided the spend on commercial flights by the MOJ, rather than the cost specifically of private charter flights.

The MOJ does not monitor spend on private charter flights, because a very low volume of private charter flights are used. To provide an answer to the cost of private charter flights since 2010 would incur a disproportionate cost. Information for charter flights used by ministers during 2022 has been provided below. Private charter flights are occasionally used for prisoner repatriations and for travel by ministers and senior civil servants when suitable commercial flights are not available.

In respect of the use of charter flights for ministers, during 2022, one private charter flight was used by the Deputy Prime Minister and nine officials for return travel to the Hague at a cost of £22,895. This was disclosed in transparency data at the time.

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