DWP mandarins racked up £96,515 in expenses over just three months, with 517 claims filed by 65 officials between October and December last year. They spent nearly £11,000 on away days alone, and one official checked into hotels for roughly 25 nights in a single quarter. Almost an entire month…
The single biggest claim was £1,072 for a “Transformation Workshop” in London, of which £859 was spent on transport alone via a private car and train tickets. One official claimed £660 for a single night’s stay at a conference in St Andrews. Another topped the spending chart at £6,798 across 37 claims, with £4,631 on hotels and meals. Wasn’t this government supposed to crack down on this kind of spending?
