While ministers tell motorists to use public transport, they spend £8m on chauffeur driven cars for themselves
The cost of chauffeuring Labour ministers in government cars last year was more than £8million, and despite their demands for Britain’s 30million motorists to think green and use public transport instead, Government ministers had access to 121 cars in 2007-8.
Norman Baker, the Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes, said the government was spending more on ministerial cars than on monitoring air pollution.
“Ministers should have to justify why they have a car at all. This is all rather tacky and redolent of the fag-end of the government where some ministers are more interested in status and baubles and what they can get for themselves rather than serving the country.”
