Speeches

Baroness Seccombe – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Seccombe on 2014-05-07.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Deighton on 6 May (WA 368–70), how many individual transactions there were for each private office listed in each of those years.

Lord Deighton

The breakdown of the departmental private office Government Procurement Card number of individual transactions for 2005-06 to 2009-10 is in the table below. There are three types of spend within the definition of GPC procurement, lodge and corporate cards.

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

Chancellor of the Exchequer

486

472

340

480

501

Chief Secretary

191

134

100

74

199

Exchequer Secretary

116

117

137

112

130

Economic Secretary

112

220

155

108

36

Financial Secretary

266

198

166

259

213

Financial Services Secretary

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

152

TOTAL

1171

1141

898

1033

1231