§ Mr. FlightTo ask the Solicitor-General what the cost was to her Department for(a) ministerial cars and
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 12002 (b) Taxis 19,903 9,466 10,945 15,537 20,920 17,655 (c) Trains 50,961 46,681 62,089 74,168 100,051 99,402 (e) Airline tickets 68,692 37,062 83,625 152,990 139,904 86,713 1provisional HM Crown Prosecution Service Directorate
HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate does not keep separate accounts in these areas and costs are included in the figures provided by the Crown Prosecution Service and the Treasury Solicitor's DepartmentߞCrown Prosecution Service as a part of their overall accounts for 1997 to 2001 and Treasury Solicitor's Department from 2002 onwards.
Treasury Solicitor's Department
The accounting system operated by the Treasury Solicitor's Department does not hold the information at the detailed level requested.
958Wdrivers, (b) taxis, (c) train travel, (d) the use of helicopters, (e) airline tickets and (f) chartered aeroplanes in each year since 1997. [123089]
§ The Solicitor-General[holding answer 4 July 2003]:
Crown Prosecution Service
The cost to the Crown Prosecution Service of train travel and airline tickets in each year since 1997 was as follows:
£000 Train travel Airline tickets 1997–98 483 29 1998–99 583 25 1999–2000 770 39 2000–01 742 77 2001–02 1,153 151 2002–03 1,517 166 The Crown Prosecution Service does not separately record expenditure on taxis which could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The costs of taxis are, however, included with other miscellaneous travel expenditure and the aggregate cost of such expenditure is given as follows:
£000 1997–98 68 1998–99 70 1999–2000 72 2000–01 90 2001–02 148 2002–03 189 Serious Fraud Office
The Serious Fraud Office has not incurred any expenditure providing transport for Ministers and has not used Ministerial cars, helicopters or chartered planes.
Expenditure on the other items is detailed below for each financial year since 1997:
The Department allocates its travel costs between costs incurred in the United Kingdom and abroad, and separately records the cost of Ministerial cars. So far as the Department's records show, the Department has not made use of helicopters or chartered planes since 1997.
The Department's transport costs for each year since 1997 were:
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Year ending 31 March (a) Ministerial cars and drivers Transport in the United Kingdom Foreign travel 1997 123,600 8,000 5,800 1998 234,600 18,500 21,400 1999 118,500 47,200 29,200 2000 70,000 55,000 15,000
Year ending 31 March (a) Ministerial cars and drivers Transport in the United Kingdom Foreign travel 2001 59,300 61,800 26,000 2002 109,800 154,800 28,200 2003 122,500 134,700 62,300 The budget for my own department, the Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers, is administered by the Treasury Solicitor's Department and the figures given by the Treasury-Solicitor's Department include costs incurred by the Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers.