Figures released by several government departments last week revealed millions of pounds of public money was being spent on first-class travel, employment tribunals, taxi fares, newspapers, magazines and flowers.
Personnel Today reported that departments disclosed the spending figures for the period 2006-07 in response to written questions from Conservative MP Mark Hoban.
Here is the full list of expenditure from each department questioned.
Department for Work and Pensions
- Redundancy pay: Information not available
- Employment tribunals: £2,907,334.90.
- Flowers: Information not available
- First-class rail travel: £9.48m
- First-class flights: £6,374
- Business-class flights: £1,415,556
- Taxi fares: Information not available
- Newspapers and magazines: £126,393.63
Home Office
- Redundancy pay: Information not available
- Employment tribunals: Information not available
- Flowers: Information not available
- First-class rail travel: Information not available
- First-class flights: Information not available
- Business-class flights: Information not available
- Taxi fares: £962,533
- Newspapers and magazines: £131,287
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
- Redundancy pay: £16.49m
- Employment tribunals: £176,456
- Flowers: £675
- First-class rail travel: £1,264,527
- First-class flights: £173,035
- Business-class flights: £2,584,247
- Taxi fares: £349,075
- Newspapers and magazines: £100,115
Ministry of Justice
- Redundancy pay: £7,471,574
- Employment tribunals: Information not available
- Flowers: Information not available
- First-class rail travel: Information not available
- First-class flights: Information not available
- Business-class flights: Information not available
- Taxi fares: Information not available
- Newspapers and magazines: £15,000
Department of Health
- Redundancy pay: Information not available
- Employment tribunals: £44,249
- Flowers: £1,300
- First-class rail travel: £3,110,108
- First-class flights: £9,946
- Business-class flights: £463,723
- Taxi fares: £310,754
- Newspapers and magazines: £81,134
Department for Communities and Local Government
- Redundancy pay: Zero
- Employment tribunals: Information not available
- Flowers: £6,100.44
- All travel costs: £2,004,632
- Newspapers and magazines: £25,064
Ministry of Defence
- Redundancy pay: £17m
- Employment tribunals: Information not available
- Flowers: Information not available
- First-class rail travel: Information not available
- First-class flights: Information not available
- Business-class flights: Information not available
- Taxi fares: Information not available
- Newspapers and magazines: £65,324
Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Redundancy pay: £11.3m
- Employment tribunals: £11,087
- Flowers: Information not available
- First-class rail travel: £1,242,196
- First-class flights: £34,690
- Business-class flights: £1,100,623
- Taxi fares: £194,840
- Newspapers and magazines: £72,000
Department for International Development
- Redundancy pay: £2,653,413
- Employment tribunals: £1,500
- Flowers: Information not available
- Total rail travel: £366,684
- First-class flights: £41,922
- Business-class flights: £5,726,318
- Taxi fares: £248,363
- Newspapers and magazines: £64,367
Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
- Redundancy pay: Information not available
- Employment tribunals: Information not available
- Flowers: Information not available
- First-class rail travel: £3,923,948
- First-class flights: £13,146
- Business-class flights: £295,593
- Taxi fares: £268,857
- Newspapers and magazines: £166,000
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Redundancy pay: £100,475
- Employment tribunals: Zero
- Flowers: £4,675
- First-class rail travel:
- First-class flights: £65,404
- Business-class flights: £201,110
- Taxi fares: £33,907.44
- Newspapers and magazines: £57,531
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Department for Transport
- Redundancy pay: Zero
- Employment tribunals: £176,456
- Flowers: £2,029
- First-class rail travel: Information not available
- First-class flights: Information not available
- Business-class flights: Information not available
- Taxi fares: £208,092
- Newspapers and magazines: £25,064
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Redundancy pay: Zero
- Employment tribunals: Information not available
- Flowers: Information not available
- First-class rail travel: £191,940
- First-class flights: Information not available
- Business-class flights: Information not available
- Taxi fares: £605,080
- Newspapers and magazines: £1,410,027
