Mobile phones have cost Richmond Council more than £250,000 in the last year a Freedom of Information request has revealed.
Your Local Guardian report:
Richmond Council forked out more than £286,210 on phone bills in the past three years.
A Freedom of Information request by the Richmond and Twickenham Times revealed 945 staff at Richmond Council had a council=issued a Nokia, HTC or Samsung phone issued to them.
The bill for all the handsets totalled £97,668 in 2011-12, a decrease from £104,459 forked out by taxpayers in 2010/11, but a rise from the £84,083 bill in 2009/10.