HC Deb 18 January 1993 vol 217 c30W
Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will make a statement on the current conditions on which civil servants in his Department are granted salary advances to enable the purchase of bicycles for home-to-office travel; if he will make a statement on the current conditions in each agency of his Department; what plans he has to change the conditions; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Boswell

Advances of salary up to a maximum of £100 are available to junior staff for the purchase of bicycles for home-to-office travel. The conditions applying to the scheme are being reviewed in the light of the reply that my hon. Friend the Member for Loughborough (Mr. Dorrell) gave on 16 December 1992 to my hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford (Mr. Burns) at columns285–86.