HC Deb 07 September 2004 vol 424 cc966-7W
Dr. Cable

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the travel costs were of civil servants in(a) his Department and (b) its rel#ted agencies in each year since 1997. [183904]

Fiona Mactaggart

The information is set out in the following table:

Travel costs
£
UK Overseas Total
1997
Department 3,898,126.65 1,224,570.48 5,122,697.13
Agencies 7,620,389.45 42,316.98 7,662706.43
Total 11,518516.10 1,266,887.46 12,785403.56
1998
Department 3,270,766.30 886,831.19 4,157,597.49
Agencies 8,290,722.40 50,802.42 8,341,524.82
Total 11,561,488.70 937,633.61 12,499,122.31
1999
Department 3,187,174.89 1,441,260.08 4,628,434.97
Agencies 8,294,957.22 81,651.74 8,376,608.96
Total 11,482,132.11 1,522,911.82 13,005,043.93

Travel costs
£
UK Overseas Total
2000
Department 4,245,879.25 1,396,593.81 5,642,473.06
Agencies 9,133,124.06 63,087.76 9,196,211.82
Total 13,379,003.31 1,459,681.57 14,838,684.88
2001
Department 6,348,417.71 2,077,311.00 8,425,728.71
Agencies 9,774,147.78 18,987.40 9,793,135.18
Total 16,122,565.49 2,096,298.40 18,218,863.89
2002
Department 8,732,248.97 2,355,805.87 11,088,054.84
Agencies 10,467,841.11 36,290.14 10,504,131.25
Total 19,200,090.08 2,392,096.01 21,592,186.09
2003
Department 12,406,053.11 4,449,971.03 16,856,024.14
Agencies 10,780,887.32 9,053.09 10,789,940.41
Total 23,186,940.43 4,459,024.12 27,645,964.55

The marked increases in travel costs since 2001 can be largely attributed to changes in strategy within the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) where increased staff numbers and the need to travel as a result of new policy initiatives and targets for improved IND performance. Other contributing factors have been related to providing advice to the organisers of the 2002 Football World Cup in Japan and Euro 2004 in Portugal and the creation of new units to support the police reform agenda.

Criminal Records Bureau only commenced operations in 2000.

Employees of the National Probation Service are not civil servants and their costs have therefore not been included in the above.