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.