Wales Online report:

Cardiff council’s spending on tea and biscuits has come under fire after it emerged it has splashed out more than £28,000 on refreshments over the last three years

A Freedom of Information request to the authority has revealed that residents have footed the bill for £28,749.67 worth of nibbles to be supplied at formal council meetings since October 2010.

The highest figure was in the municipal year May 2011 to May 2012 when councillors got through refreshments worth £11,262.45 over 164 meetings. This averages out to about £69 per meeting.

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Matthew Burgess
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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.