§ Mr. BakerTo ask the Secretary of State for Health 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. [32439]
§ Ms JowellInformation is not held in the form requested. Costs incurred in 1996–97, and recorded to date in 1997–98 were:
£ 1996–97 1997–98 Reimbursement of cost of staff's use of their own cars 793,793 689,283 Costs of official vehicles 2,021,608 387,926 Car hire, rentals and other expenses 358,054 1,250,978 Public transport 3,001,368 2,699,959 Information for earlier years is not available on a comparable basis.
These figures do not include some expenditure by the Department's agencies which account separately for such payments.
I shall write to the hon. Member with more details as soon as possible.