To Archive List PageIn the death throes of the last government, Labour let a dozen Parliamentary committies fly all round the world on "fact-finding" junkets. 93 MPs benefitted from this parting splurge, which blew £571,000 of taxpayers' cash on :

A trip to New York and Washington DC for 12 MPs on the Foreign Affairs Committee costing £55,000

Trips to Moscow, Tbilisi and Tallin for a dozen MPs on the Defence Committee costing £55,000

A jaunt all the way to New Zealand for 7 MPs on the Health Committee costing £52,000

A look around Nepal and Bangladesh for 6 MPs on the International Development Committee costing £50,000

A trip to Zimbabwe for 8 MPs on the International Development Committee costing £49,000

Off to New York and Washington, DC, for 9 MPs on the Treasury Committee at a cost of £48,000

A junket to sunny California for 6 MPs on the Energy & Climate Change Committee costing £48,000

Trips to Kenya and Tanzania for 6 MPs on the International Development Committee costing £45,000

A tour of the Middle East taking in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh for 7 MPs on the Business, Innovation & Skills Committee costing £44,000

Jaunts to Washington, Albany, New York for 8 MPs on the Culture, Media & Sport Committee costing £42,000

Off to Canada taking in Ottawa and Montreal for 5 MPs on the Work & Pensions Committee costing £42,000

More lucky spongers off to New York and Washington, DC – 7 MPs on the Children, Schools & Families Committee costing £42,000

  Nice Work If You Can Get It!  

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