The department fighting climate change has spent more than £1 million on air travel in less than a year
Gordon Brown only created the Department of Energy and Climate Change in October of last year, but it has been getting through taxpayers' money at quite a rate ever since.
The Lib Dem MP Simon Hughes wondered how much of it had been spent on gas-guzzling journeys and has just had this answer back from the junior minister, Joan Ruddock:
"DECC has spent the following since its inception: (a) ministerial cars and drivers £166,305; (b) taxis for the whole Department £202,249; (c) train travel for the whole Department £557,637; and (e) air fares for the whole Department £1,179,390. The Department is not able to separately identify the use of helicopters or chartered aircraft except at disproportionate cost."
That's more than £100,000 a month on air travel - not to mention the equivalent of 5,500 return train journeys from London to Edinburgh over that eleven month period.
I daresay even more of our money is being spent on off-setting all those carbon emissions...
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