FOI reference: FOI-2025-3127
You asked
For the purpose of the below questions, a "greyfleet" vehicle can be defined as a personal vehicle, such as an employee owned vehicle, used for business purposes.
- How many greyfleet miles have been travelled by your employees in the financial year 2022-2023?
- How many greyfleet miles have been travelled by your employees in the financial year 2023-2024?
- How much money has been reimbursed back to employees for those grey fleet miles in the financial year 2022-2023?
- How much money has been reimbursed back to employees for those grey fleet miles in the financial year 2023-2024?
- How many employee road accidents using a greyfleet vehicle have been reported to your organisation in the year 2022 -2023?
- How many employee road accidents using a greyfleet vehicle have been reported to your organisation in the year 2023 -2024?
I would be grateful if you could provide this information in an electronic format.
We said
Thank you for your request.
For the purpose of this response, staff members are defined as employees of the UK Statistics Authority and its executive arms, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR).
The number of miles travelled by staff members and associated value of reimbursements in 2022 to 2023 and 2023 to 2024, when using privately owned vehicles for business purposes are detailed below.
- In 2022 to 2023, 2,891,373.50 miles were travelled with a reimbursement value of £1,271,350.23.
- In 2023 to 2024, 3,274,317.49 miles were travelled with a reimbursement value of £1,428,573.58.
The majority of miles travelled, and value of reimbursements made relate to survey activities carried out by ONS Field Interviewers:
89% in 2022 to 2023 and 91% in 2023 to 2024 of miles travelled.
91% in 2022 to 2023 and 93% in 2023 to 2024 of the reimbursement values.
Incidents of road accidents, whilst driving privately owned vehicles for business purposes, which have been reported to us by staff members are detailed below. We have interpreted road accidents to mean road traffic collisions (as defined in the Road Traffic Act) and near miss/damage to vehicle incidents.
- In 2022 to 2023 there were 19 road accidents reported.
- In 2023 to 2024 there were 21 road accidents reported.