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More profligacy from the men at the ministry...
Written Answers — Transport: Departmental Plants (10 Dec 2009)
Grant Shapps (Shadow Minister (Housing), Communities and Local Government; Welwyn Hatfield, Conservative)
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how much has been spent by his Department on (a) cut flowers and (b) pot plants in each of the last three years.
Chris Mole (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Transport; Ipswich, Labour)
The information is not held in the format requested and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. However, the Department for Transport spent £87,401 on pot plants and £3,419 on cut flowers in 2008-09. This excludes spend incurred at the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency as the information requested can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
No doubt that includes the cost of flying in chrysanthemums for IEP meetings.
