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£6m ministerial car bill is shameful - Baker
22 July 2008


Mr Norman Baker

Commenting on figures showing that ministerial cars have cost the taxpayer more than £6m in the last year, Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker said:

"It is shameful that ministers are now spending more than £6m of taxpayers’ money a year on being ferried around in the lap of luxury. This is yet more money at public expense to feather ministers’ beds.

"While Gordon Brown is at a motor show arguing for greener, more economic vehicles, one third of the cars used by his Ministers are pollutant spewing gas guzzlers.

"The fact that it has been released on the last day before recess in one of 30 ministerial statements shows that the Government is trying to bury its bad news."


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