You asked

  1. What forms of vehicle transport are you currently using for business related travel?

  2. What is the annual spend on business related travel?

  3. What proportion (%) of your annual spend on vehicle transport relates to cars and light commercial vehicles up to 3.5t?

  4. Who is the person responsible for procuring and/or managing business travel? (Please provide name, job title, telephone, email and address details)

  5. Who are your current suppliers/providers for your existing business travel arrangements (lease, ownership, hire or rental)?

  6. When are your current vehicle transport arrangements due to expire? (Please provide details of each form of transport and each provider)

  7. What are your current annual employee CO2 emissions, relating to business travel (in tonnes)?

  8. What is the average contract term that you have with your current business travel providers?

We said

Thank you for your recent enquiry. Answers to your questions are as follows;

  1. We currently use cars, trains and planes for business travel.

  2. Annual spend on cars is £147,356. Annual spend on trains and planes is £1,764,062.

  3. Proportion spent on cars is 8.35%

  4. This is not managed by one person but by a team. Please contact us via pu.projects@ons.gov.uk

  5. We rent cars from Enterprise. We use Redfern to book rail and plane tickets.

  6. The Enterprise contract will expire on 01/04/20. The Redfern contract will expire on 10/08/18.

  7. Our emission data is published in the UK Statistics Authority Annual report, page 33.

    https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/ARRA-2015-16.pdf

    Annual ONS/Enterprise emissions from cars are 1,764,000kg. Annual ONS/Redfern emissions from trains and planes is 361,000kg.

  8. The average Enterprise contract is 3 years with the option of two 1-year extensions. The average Redfern contract is 3 years.