FOI/202500482085 · FOI · not held
Ministerial car usage costs: FOI release
Information requested
Please provide the total cost of Scottish Government provided ministerial car usage for the years 2022-23 and 2023-24, broken down by:
Individual Minister Total mileage recorded Fuel and maintenance costs separately
Response
While our aim to provide as much information as possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not hold some of the information you have requested.
The Government Car Service (GCS) operates its vehicles and drivers as a shared resource. As a result, they frequently cover multiple customers throughout the day, and individual costs or mileages are not recorded.
Additionally, we do not hold total mileage data for the GCS fleet for the financial year 2022/23, as this information was routinely destroyed prior to the date of your request.
This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.
However, we are able to provide the total cost of operating the service, broken down by expenditure category, along with the total mileage currently available. This information is provided below.
Year Fuel cost (£) Service and repairs cost (£) Staff costs (£) Private contract hire cost (£) Travel and subsistence (£) Total cost (£) Total mileage 2022/23 99,204 43,897 1,065,133 162,485 7,268 1,377,987 Not held 2023/24 78,050 47,167 1,169,372 197,642 13,890 1,506,122 433,662
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Contact Please quote the FOI reference Central Correspondence Unit Email: contactus@gov.scot Phone: 0300 244 4000 The Scottish Government St Andrew's House Regent Road Edinburgh EH1 3DG
Detected exemption language
This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.
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