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Written Answers to Questions

Friday 20 June 2008

Transport

Departmental Accountancy

Mr. Letwin: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if she will place in the Library a copy of her Department's (a) chart of accounts and (b) resource account codes and usage descriptions for the 2008-09 financial year. [210986]

Jim Fitzpatrick: The chart of accounts for 2008-09, which has been placed in the Libraries of the House, reflects the Department's structure for that year and will not necessarily reflect the 2007-08 structure, or that for future years. The chart shows the relationship between parent codes (used for preparing resource accounts) and children codes (used for more detailed management purposes). Each code has a brief description that describes its use.

Departmental Furniture

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) chairs, (b) desks and (c) other office
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furnishings have been purchased by her Department and its agencies in each of the last five years; and at what cost in each case. [211763]

Jim Fitzpatrick: The information requested is not held centrally. It has been estimated that, due to the broad scope of this question and the decentralised and devolved structure of the Department, to obtain it would incur disproportionate costs. However, the information that is available is set out in the table below. This does not include in all cases information on specific categories of purchase as this is not recorded centrally.

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has replaced approximately 1,450 workstations per year over the last three years (April 2005 - March 2008) as part of a rolling refurbishment programme of the main headquarters site in Swansea. Each workstation includes a desk, chair, three drawer pedestal, back screen and monitor arm. Cost information is commercially confidential.

Records of furniture purchased by the DVLA prior to this are not available.

Data for the following Department for Transport organisational units is not available in the requested format and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost:

DfT Central:

London Headquarters buildings,

Marine Accident Investigation Branch.

Executive Agency:

Maritime and Coastguard Agency,

Vehicle Certification Agency and

Vehicle and Operator Services Agency

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£
			DfT Central			Executive Agency
			Ashdown House, Hastings	Air Accidents Investigations Branch	Rail A ccident I nvestigation B ranch (see note 1 )	Driving Standards Agency	Government Car and Despatch Agency	Highways Agency
2003-04	a) Chairs	Quantity	2	—	—	—	—	—
		Cost	390	—	—	—	—	—
	b) Desks	Quantity	0	—	—	—	—	—
		Cost	0	—	—	—	—	—
	c) Other	Quantity	0	—	—	—	—	—
		Cost	0	—	—	—	—	—
	Total	Quantity	2	—	—	—	—	—
		Cost	390	9,391	—	63,000	8,388	65,630
2004-05	a) Chairs	Quantity	20	—	121	—	—	—
		Cost	10,700	—	14,844	—	—	—
	b) Desks	Quantity	210	—	37	—	—	—
		Cost	61,000	—	12,716	—	—	—
	c) Other	Quantity	315	—	255	—	—	—
		Cost	54,300	—	26,969	—	—	—
	Total	Quantity	545	—	413	—	—	—
		Cost	126,000	25,795	54,529	86,000	10,968	274,176
2005-06	a) Chairs	Quantity	20	—	39	—	—	—
		Cost	3,900	—	3,497	—	—	—
	b) Desks	Quantity	0	—	0	—	—	—
		Cost	0	—	0	—	—	—
	c) Other	Quantity	0	—	218	—	—	—
		Cost	0	—	33,888	—	—	—
	Total	Quantity	20	—	257	—	—	—
		Cost	3,900	41,952	37,385	48,000	7,141	124,252
2006-07	a) Chairs	Quantity	77	—	3	—	—	—
		Cost	15,600	—	452	—	—	—
	b) Desks	Quantity	0	—	0	—	—	—
		Cost	0	—	0	—	—	—
	c) Other	Quantity	0	—	34	—	—	—
		Cost	0	—	2,417	—	—	—
	Total	Quantity	77	—	37	—	—	—
		Cost	15,600	55,924	2,869	112,000	10,660	2,405,660
2007-08	a) Chairs	Quantity	8	—	23	—	—	—
		Cost	2,100	—	4,789	—	—	—
	b) Desks	Quantity	0	—	3	—	—	—
		Cost	0	—	1,198	—	—	—
	c) Other	Quantity	0	—	72	—	—	—
		Cost	0	—	7,792	—	—	—
	Total	Quantity	8	—	98	—	—	—
		Cost	2,100	27,117	13,779	375,000	12,199	366,412
Note: 1. Rail Accident Investigation Branch became operational on 17 October 2005.

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