The 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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