Government Car Service statistics (GCS): FOI release
- Published
- 9 December 2025
- Directorate
- Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate
- Topic
- Public sector, Transport, Work and skills
- FOI reference
- FOI/202500483177
- Date received
- 3 September 2025
- Date responded
- 30 September 2025
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
Please provide the total cost of Scottish Government provided ministerial car usage for the year 2024-25, broken down by:
- Year
- Trips taken with no one in the car
- Fuel cost (£)
- Service and repairs cost (£)
- Staff costs (£)
- Private contracts hire cost (£)
- Travel and subsistence (£) T
- total cost (£)
- Total mileage
Response
The information you have requested is provided below.
During the period 2024-25, the Government Car Service (GCS) was used on 69 occasions to deliver official documents and / or equipment without any passengers on board.
The total operating costs for operating the service, broken down by expenditure category is provided below.
|
Year |
Fuel cost |
Service and repairs cost |
Staff costs |
Private contract hire cost |
Travel and subsistence |
Total cost |
Total mileage |
|
2024/25 |
£59,512 |
£90,758 |
£1,108,811 |
£180,807 |
£7,355 |
£1,447,243 |
409,188 |
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