Mark Spencer corrected a written answer on Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Taxis
Jon Trickett (Labour, Hemsworth) asked written question 63949 on 17 October 2022. Mark Spencer answered on 1 November 2022 for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Mark Spencer corrected the answer on 1 February 2023. The correction replaced 3 figures (20,317, 46,668, 9,722) with 3 figures (143,210.25, 19,898.34, 30,288.49). Altogether 14 words differ between the two versions.
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department spent on taxi cabs for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in each of the last three years.
Original and corrected answer
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| Original | Corrected |
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| The following table sets out expenditure on taxis in each of the given years. A split by ministers and civil servants could not be obtained on this occasion without incurring disproportionate costs. Year | Taxi Spend (£) 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | | | | | | | | | | The following table sets out expenditure on taxis in each of the given years. A split by ministers and civil servants could not be obtained on this occasion without incurring disproportionate costs. Year | Taxi Spend (£) 2019 | 143,210.25 2020 | 30,288.49 2021 | 19,898.34 |
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Receipt
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| Date read | 15 October 2026 |
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