The BBC report:

Consultancy fees of £1m for the Welsh government’s £52m purchase of Cardiff Airport have been criticised by the Conservatives.

A Freedom of Information (FoI) request by the party showed £1.1m was spent on fees and VAT for the buyout.

The total costs were a “massive sum of money which could have been better invested in the NHS,” the Tories said.

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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.