Outrage As Global Poverty Ministry Racks Up Pounds 6m Business Class Travel Bill ; Staff Take Nine Flights Every Day at Pounds 1,664 Routine First Class Rail Travel Costs Pounds 163,000
Mail on Sunday › September 06, 2009
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THE Government department in charge of eradicating global poverty spent almost Pounds 6million of taxpayers' money on first-class and businessclass travel in just one year.
Officials at the Department for International Development (DfID) clocked up the Pounds 500,000-a-month bill for rail and plane journeys both in Britain and abroad between April 2008 and April this year.See the full content of this document
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Outrage As Global Poverty Ministry Racks Up Pounds 6m Business Class Travel Bill ; Staff Take Nine Flights Every Day at Pounds 1,664 Routine First Class Rail Travel Costs Pounds 163,000
Its 2,600 staff took an average of nine business-class flights every day for 12 months at an average cost of Pounds 1,664 per ticket.
They also took 11 first-class flights over the same period costing Pounds 25,...See the full content of this document
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