§ Mr. BakerTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will estimate the cost of employee travel on office business, broken down into(a) fuel allowances, (b) unproductive time during travel, (c) other costs related to car transport and (d) costs related to public transport, for (i) 1994–95, (ii) 1995–96, (iii) 1996–97 and (iv) 1997–98. [32446]
§ Mr. Tom Clarke[holding answer 3 March 1998]: Information on employee travel is not available in the level of detail requested and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Neither do records before 1996–97 differentiate between Ministerial and official travel and related subsistence. The available information is given in the table.
£ Total travel and subsistence Total official travel and subsistence 1994–95 (actual) 266,092 n/a 1995–96 (actual) 280,104 n/a 1996–97 (actual) 242,031 182,142 1997–98 (provisional outturn) 292,328 245,360