martes, 8 de enero de 2013

Rail minister under fire for use of official cars - Telegraph.co.uk

Last month the Department for Transport, which said its bill for ministerial cars was just over £80,000 in 2011-12, said it had cut spending on the Government fleet by 72 per cent since taking office.

Ministers can use official cars when they are reading official papers although many are still happy to use the train while working including David Cameron, the Prime Minister.

A spokesman for Greater Anglia, the company operating services between Chelmsford and Liverpool Street, said additional carriages had been provided to tackle the problem of overcrowding over the past two years.

In November Chelmsford became the first of the company's stations to offer passengers Wi-Fi access.

A standard class season ticket to London now costs £3,540, compared with £2,400 a decade ago, representing a rise of 47.5 per cent.

A DfT spokesman defended Mr Burns. "The Minister of State does not have a home in London but uses his commute to work on official papers and so travels in a car provided by the Government Car Service for security reasons.

"The Ministerial Code permits ministers to use official cars for home to office journeys within a reasonable distance of London when they are working on classified papers."

Bob Crow, general secretary of the RMT rail union, said: "The public will be sickened that Ministers responsible for whacking passengers with huge fare increases are either being chauffeured around or claiming first class travel at the taxpayers expense."

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