FOI release

Departmental spend on ministerial cars since May 2009

Published 26 October 2011

We were asked for the department’s spend total on ministerial cars since May 1, 2009; broken down by minister.

The information is shown below.

2009 to 2010 Secretary of State £75,518.89
2009 to 2010 PUSS £71,602.82
2009 to 2010 Supplementary (pool) costs £3,382.49
2010 to 2011 Secretary of State (allocated) £74,464.26
2010 to 2011 Secretary of State (ministerial car pool) £20,591.95
2010 to 2011 PUSS (allocated) £29,607.47
2010 to 2011 PUSS (ministerial car pool) £6,768.58

For the current financial year, the year-to-date figures are:-

01/04/11 to 30/09/11 Secretary of State (allocated) £37,025.25
01/04/11 to 30/09/11 Secretary of State (ministerial car pool) £450.00
01/04/11 to 30/09/11 PUSS (ministerial car pool) £0.00

The figures for the current financial year reflect that the department has reduced the number of ministerial cars from three to one.