Nearly £16m has been spent by councils in North Wales to transport pupils to schools in taxis since 2012.

Freedom of Information responses reveal that over £79m has been spent on taxis transporting pupils to and from schools in Wales during the last three years.

In North Wales, Conwy had the highest spend with £8.4m, followed by Wrexham with £4.8m and Anglesey with £2.7m.

Reported by The Daily Post. You can read the full story here. 

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.