Your taxes paying for taxis
10:32amThe Pandora column in today’s Independent report on just how much the Department of Health spent on transport last year, and the sums are quite staggering:
£310,754 on taxis
£463,723 on business-class plane fares
£3.1 million on first-class train tickets
As Pandora notes that’s, “£1,195 a working day on taxis and almost £12,000 a day on first-class train travel.” Or to put it another way, the Department of Health spends on taxis and first-class train tickets each day what it would cost to give 5,000 patients the daily Alzheimer's drugs that they need.
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Toby Belch
August 22nd, 2007 12:37pm Report this commentI'd happily pay for a forst class ticket to Austalia for Patricia Hewitt, provided it's one-way.
Tiberius
August 22nd, 2007 12:46pm Report this commentThey'd never let her back in, Toby.
Perry
August 22nd, 2007 12:58pm Report this commentSo, the bigwigs swan around in comfort in the face of the national disgrace of MRSA infection rate and filthy hospitals! Shame on the lot of them.
Prodicus
August 22nd, 2007 1:50pm Report this commentThe not-for-profit, member-financed organisation where I used to work allowed its managers to travel first class but they stopped that nonsense *nineteen years* ago. Most of the members had not realised it was going on but when they found out (after the event) there was hell to pay.
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