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WASTE WATCH Each week in Waste Watch, The Sunday Telegraph's campaign to expose cases of taxpayers' money being wasted, we highlight ways in which bureaucrats have failed to keep a grip on costs, or have dipped into the public purse to fund unnecessary projects
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June 29, 2008
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LEADER OF THE PACK
A council leader spent pounds 7,000 of taxpayers' money on a
'leadership course' in America. Ian Clement went on the two-week
Vital Vision programme when he was head of Bexley council.
Mr Clement, a Conservative who is now London Mayor Boris
Johnson's deputy mayor for government relations, was given a place
on the course free of charge but the bill for his travel and
accommodation was paid by the local authority.
Ursula Ayliffe, the Labour candidate for Mr Clement's former
Christchurch ward, said: "He argued that his cuts to Meals on Wheels
were made to deliver value for money to residents. At the same time,
he spent thousands on trips to America."
HARD TO SWALLOW
Kent ...
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