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Article: pounds 5m on hire cars; FURY AS WAG SPLASHES YOUR CASH ON DRIVING AROUND CIVIL SERVANTS.
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- June 12, 2009
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Byline: TOM BODDEN
THE Welsh Assembly Government spent pounds 5m in five years on hire cars for use by civil servants.
Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams used the Freedom of Information Act to extract the figures after she claimed First Minister Rhodri Morgan had failed to supply them through the normal channels to AMs.
The Assembly Government had a vehicle hire contract with Europcar UK Ltd for the past five years, available for use by staff, it was revealed.
The yearly spend on Europcar hire was 2004: pounds 958,708, 2005: pounds 990,699, 2006: pounds 924,123, 2007: pounds 1,188,367, 2008: pounds 1,040,613, total: pounds ...