Co-conspirators will remember when then-Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden announced an immediate ‘freeze’ in taxpayer credit card spending last March. As Guido’s been tracking, that hasn’t exactly been adhered to by Whitehall’s finest. Particularly in David Lammy’s department…
In February, the MoJ and its quangos spent £7,416,657 on their Government Procurement Cards. It’s been ticking up each month since, and fast forward to October the total bill came to a whopping £8,845,845. A £1.4 million increase after the ‘freeze’ – or 19%. No doubt some of that was spent by prison officers handing cash to inmates they’d mistakenly freed to hop on a train to London…
