Civil servants's first-class air fares costing taxpayer £4m
Civil servants are continuing to fly first-class on official trips abroad, two years after a report recommended that the practice should stop.
A leading Sunday newspaper says air travel for civil servants is costing taxpayers £5.5m a year, with a massive £4m of that total going on business-class fares.
The newspaper also says that a recommendation to carry out value-for-money audits on these travel bills has not been implemented.
A plan to use the air miles clocked up by officials to get future discount fares for the State has also been ignored.
