§ Dr. Lynne JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what motor mileage allowance rates his Department offers to(a) Ministers and (b) civil servants using their own vehicles for official business; and what has been the cost of each in each of the last five years. [98696]
§ Yvette CooperIn the Department the current motor mileage allowance rates for Ministers and civil servants who use their own vehicles are 40 pence per mile for the first 4,000 miles in a financial year and 22.5 pence per mile for mileage in excess of 4,000 miles.
Ministers, when travelling on official business, may use a private car instead of an official car, and claim mileage allowance in the same circumstances and on the same terms as civil servants in the Department.
65WThe cost of motor mileage allowance payments available for each of the last three years only:
of which the following was paid to Ministers:
- 1996–97: £824,000
- 1997–98: £877,000
- 1998–99: £816,000
- 1996–97: £69
- 1997–98: £189
- 1998–99: £0