Scottish Government staff travel costs: FOI release

Information requested

You asked for "The amount spent by the Scottish Government on taxis, hire cars and other vehicles used to transport civil servants from location to location in the calendar years 2023, 2024 and 2025."

Response

I enclose a copy of the information you requested in the tables below. I have taken your request as referring to road vehicles and more specifically motor vehicles.

1. Travel and Subsistence Expense Claims

Year	Vehicle Hire	Taxi	Motor Mileage (private car)	Bus	Motor Mileage (private motorcycle)
2023	£21,438.67	£4,427.97	£329,962.69	£11,122.29	£92.64
2024	£3,282.53	£10,623.18	£157,195.23	£8,059.27	£49.44
2025 (1 Jan to 22 May)	£595.95	£11,752.64	£98,396.12	£1,770.44	£0.00

2. Vehicle Hire

Year	Total Cost
2023	£173,952.76
2024	£167,030.19
2025 (1 Jan to 22 May)	£46,567.20

3. Pool Car refuelling and electricity for charging.

Financial Year	Total fuel cost
2022/23	£318,372
2023/24	£262,505
2024/25	£245,805
2025/26 (1 Jan to 22 May)	£32,665

The information in Table 3 has been provided for clarity. I am unable to provide this information in calendar years as requested because this information is only available in financial years. Costs are available only to the nearest whole number of Pounds.

In addition, costs relating to bus journeys paid centrally cannot be differentiated from tram journeys because they use the same ticketing mechanism, and therefore I have not included those costs in my response.

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