I am committed to ensuring that the trains enter service as planned. Contractual details regarding any compensation is commercially confidential. During the period 2009-10 to date, the following numbers of ministers have been entitled to use Government cars: 2009-10 4 2010-11 4 2011-12 4 2012-13 4 2013-14 4 2014-15 5 2015-16 5 As a result of a series of changes, including closure of the Government mail service, overall operating costs have fallen from £20.956m in 2010/11 to £6.325m in 2014/15. During the same period the number of vehicles in the GCS for use by ministers have fallen from 227 to 78.