Government “red boxes”, briefcases and papers have been chauffeur-driven on their own in ministerial cars almost 2,000 times – despite a supposed Whitehall crackdown.

A Freedom of Information request tabled by The Huffington Post UK has revealed the full extent of the practice of using taxpayer-funded vehicles to ferry documents around Westminster in “air-conditioned splendour” – even when the minister is not travelling with them.

Reported by the Huffington Post UK. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.