The coalition has slashed the bill for ministerial cars by nearly half since coming to power, it was announced today.
The cost of providing chauffeur-driven vehicles for Government members was £3.8m in 2010-11, down from £6.7 million the previous financial year.
The cars have been a source of tension in the past, with Earl Attlee confirming in 2010 that ministers have been known to send their red boxes to be chauffeured home while they jump on the tube.
Former Labour minister and diarist Chris Mullin claimed to be the inspiration for scraping the cars, writing shortly after the coalition was formed in 2010:
"David Cameron remarked to me some months ago that, having read my account of the struggle to shake off a ministerial car, recounted in my diaries View From the Foothills, he was proposing to limit the supply of ministerial limos. And sure enough, he has delivered."
The prime minister has made good on the promise, with the number of ministers with an allocated car and driver falling from 78 to 13, according to the Department for Transport.