Question follow-through · 8634

Official Cars

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether individual Departments are required to record spending on official cars for Ministers and officials separately.

answeredCabinet Office

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
10 Jun 2026
Target answer date
15 Jun 2026
Answer
29 Jun 2026 · 19 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether individual Departments are required to record spending on official cars for Ministers and officials separately.

  2. 15 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 29 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    The Government Car Service (GCS) provides vehicles to departments as a shared resource.Individual departments are responsible for their own internal financial management and record keeping arrangements.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prime Minister: Meetings

11 Jun 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish a list of meetings the Prime Minister held with external organisations or individuals not in a ministerial capacity between February and September 2025.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Lord Mandelson

11 Jun 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, further to the statement by the Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister of 1 June 2026, on Lord Mandelson, what is the legal basis for the Government not recovering official government information from former Crow

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Special Advisers: Public Appointments

11 Jun 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 3 June 2026 to Question 3339, on Special Advisers: Public Appointments, whether his Department (a) has appointed or (b) will be appointing delivery advisers as a Department in its

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Government Departments: Electronic Messaging

11 Jun 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what conclusion the Cabinet Office’s Propriety and Ethics Team under the previous Government reached on the ownership of the electronic messages held on non-corporate devices relating to official government busi

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Government Departments: Electronic Messaging

11 Jun 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 29 May 2026 to Question 2043 on Government Departments: Whatsapp, what the terms of reference are of the independent review into non-corporate communication channels; who will undertake

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Jonathan Powell

11 Jun 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much Jonathan Powell has claimed on expenses since he was appointed a special adviser; and whether any expense claims have been submitted but not approved.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Lord Mandelson

11 Jun 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether any Ministers requested to provide material for the Humble Address on Lord Mandelson provided a nil return originally and subsequently provided information.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Overseas Students: EU Countries

11 Jun 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what representations he has received from the European Commission on international fees charged to EU students studying at UK universities.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Written Questions: Artificial Intelligence

11 Jun 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the answer of 31 October 2025 to Question 84244 on Government: Artificial Intelligence, whether his Department has issued guidance to civil servants on using AI to draft answers to written Parl

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Public Relations: Russia

11 Jun 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of UK-affiliated (a) public relations and (b) public affairs firms contracting with businesses associated with Russia from 2022.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Lord Mandelson

11 Jun 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Chief Secretary to the Prime Minster had communications with Lord Mandelson that (a) have deleted due to disappearing messages and (b) were not in scope of the Humble Address.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Lord Mandelson

11 Jun 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 29 June 2026, to Question 204, on Lord Mandelson, whether the Cabinet Office provided the support of separate independent legal counsel to the Intelligence and Security Committee to ass