DWP mandarins racked up £96,515 in expenses over just three months, with 517 claims filed by 65 officials between October and December last year. They spent nearly £11,000 on away days alone, and one official checked into hotels for roughly 25 nights in a single quarter. Almost an entire month…
The single biggest claim was £1,072 for a “Transformation Workshop” in London, of which £859 was spent on transport alone via a private car and train tickets. One official claimed £660 for a single night’s stay at a conference in St Andrews. Another topped the spending chart at £6,798 across 37 claims, with £4,631 on hotels and meals. Wasn’t this government supposed to crack down on this kind of spending?
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”