Recently, Marc Goergen from Luxembourg's Pirate Party submitted a parliamentary question concerning the use of official state cars. In a joint response on Monday, Minister of Mobility and Public Works Francois Bausch and Minister for Energy and Spatial Planning Claude Turmes responded to Goergen.
The response revealed that the government has registered exactly 2,000 official vehicles for twenty ministries. In 2018, the government spent €2.4 million on new cars for the ministries. Three years earlier, the purchase of cars cost around €4 million.
The ministers answered that there are variations in the number of official vehicles per ministry, as some ministries include different administrations. For instance, the Ministry of Interior Security includes the entire police force, which accounts for the ministry's approximately 900 official vehicles. The Ministry of Education has 220 vehicles, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs boasts around 70.
The government is slowly introducing electric cars and hybrids to its fleet. Last year, 35 electric or hybrid vehicles joined the fleet's ranks.
Bausch specified that the cars attributed to government officials are exclusively bought from German car manufacturers Audi, BMW, and Mercedes. Currently, these vehicles are three years old. Four of these vehicles are expected to be replaced by plug-in hybrids or electric cars later this year.
