The Telegraph today reports that George Osborne, Shadow Chancellor, has highlighted Treasury profligacy. Last year, they spent:
- £178,000 on taxi fares
- £173,599 on bookings for conferences that were cancelled
- £258,000 on stationery
- £14,000 on pot plants and flowers
- £96,000 on newspapers and magazines
- £400,000 on train tickets
- £755,000 on airline
- £596,000 on other travel costs for ministers, civil servants and special advisers
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If spending on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is pointless and wasted, then an eye-wateringly large amount.
I think there are are couple of questions begged there, though.
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