Fury as MoD spends £40k a week on LIMOS in ‘pointless waste’ of money

THE MoD spent £40,000 a week connected chauffeur-driven cars, we tin reveal.

Its measure for taxis and limos successful the twelvemonth to April was up 45 per cent to £2.1million.

The outlay would wage the yearly wage of 83 backstage soldiers earning £25,200 a year.

One car for defence officials outgo £4,500 for a 1,060-mile instrumentality travel from barracks successful Chepstow to Inverness.

Another unit circular travel from Loughborough to Scotland’s eastbound seashore acceptable the cash-strapped MoD backmost by £3,500.

Our investigation, utilizing Freedom of Information laws, besides revealed a £3,000 car ferried officials astir the state past backmost to the Midlands.

William Yarwood, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, called it a “pointless waste” of money.

It comes arsenic experts pass the UK is susceptible to onslaught owed to deficiency of concern successful the Armed ­Forces.

Former MP and Defence Committee seat Tobias Ellwood said: “If radical were alert of however susceptible we are, determination would beryllium a greater outcry to walk much connected defence.”

The MoD blamed the erstwhile government. It said: “We are committed to securing worth for wealth for taxpayers and cracking down connected waste.”

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