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13-02-2023, 08:09 PM
Adam Forrest
Mon, 13 February 2023 at 6:11 pm SGT
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Labour raised concern about dining and alcohol purchases, including almost £345,000 by Foreign Office (FCDO) officials in 2021 under the heading “restaurants and bars”, entertainment and evidence of end-of-year spending sprees to use up budgets.
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Excessive spending exposed in the Labour dossier includes the use of five-star hotels, expensive restaurants, luxury furnishings, high-priced away days and the purchase of alcohol on government procurement cards (GPCs).
Among the more eye-opening
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Mr Sunak’s Treasury bought 13 fine art photographs from The Tate Gallery at a cost of £3,393 – despite having the government’s existing art collection to choose from.
The Foreign Office spent £7,218 on a reception for then-foreign secretary Liz Truss against the backdrop of a Sydney Harbour amusement park in early 2022, and wrongly declared thousands of pounds worth of alcohol as “computer equipment”.
Ms Truss and her entourage also spent £1,443 on lunch and dinner at two restaurants in Jakarta in November 2021, while on an official visit to Indonesia.
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Labour found false descriptions of spending – including Foreign Office data that recorded the purchase of thousands of pounds worth of English sparkling wine under headings such as “computer equipment” and “industrial supplies”.
Foreign Office officials used the cards to spend a mammoth £344,803 on alcohol in 2021 – including £23,457 on duty-free spirits and wine in 2021 for UK embassies. The figure leapt more than four times higher, to £95,834, from January to October 2022.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/scandalous-tor...16166.html
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Mon, 13 February 2023 at 6:11 pm SGT
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Labour raised concern about dining and alcohol purchases, including almost £345,000 by Foreign Office (FCDO) officials in 2021 under the heading “restaurants and bars”, entertainment and evidence of end-of-year spending sprees to use up budgets.
......
Excessive spending exposed in the Labour dossier includes the use of five-star hotels, expensive restaurants, luxury furnishings, high-priced away days and the purchase of alcohol on government procurement cards (GPCs).
Among the more eye-opening
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Mr Sunak’s Treasury bought 13 fine art photographs from The Tate Gallery at a cost of £3,393 – despite having the government’s existing art collection to choose from.
The Foreign Office spent £7,218 on a reception for then-foreign secretary Liz Truss against the backdrop of a Sydney Harbour amusement park in early 2022, and wrongly declared thousands of pounds worth of alcohol as “computer equipment”.
Ms Truss and her entourage also spent £1,443 on lunch and dinner at two restaurants in Jakarta in November 2021, while on an official visit to Indonesia.
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Labour found false descriptions of spending – including Foreign Office data that recorded the purchase of thousands of pounds worth of English sparkling wine under headings such as “computer equipment” and “industrial supplies”.
Foreign Office officials used the cards to spend a mammoth £344,803 on alcohol in 2021 – including £23,457 on duty-free spirits and wine in 2021 for UK embassies. The figure leapt more than four times higher, to £95,834, from January to October 2022.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/scandalous-tor...16166.html
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