Tories blew £1.6m on furniture and fittings for their own ministerial offices

The eye-watering measure included the Health section spending astir fractional a cardinal pounds moving to an open-plan statement successful 2023 - earlier reverting to idiosyncratic offices successful 2024

THE Tories spent £1.6 cardinal connected caller furnishings and fittings for their ain ministerial offices during their past 2 years successful power,

The eye-watering measure included the Health section spending astir fractional a cardinal pounds moving to an open-plan statement successful 2023 - earlier reverting to idiosyncratic offices successful 2024.

The biggest spenders were the Department for Education, portion Gillian Keegan was the Secretary of State.

They spent much than £600,000 connected a caller suite of ministerial offices, including a £2,000 acceptable of push-to-open drawers for each minister, with an integrated mini-fridge.

The Culture Department besides spent much than £120,000 connected a scope of varnished wood desks, gathering tables and java tables for their ministers’ offices, arsenic good arsenic brushed furnishing items, coating and decoration.

Labour ’s Emily Thornberry said: “We each request offices that are acceptable to enactment in, and no-one is going to entity to a indispensable level of upkeep connected furnishings and fittings for authorities ministers, but I bash entity to the brass cervix of the Tories pretending that the aforesaid happening didn’t hap erstwhile they were successful power.”

The Ministry of Defence spent £27,000 connected caller wallpaper and carpets for their ministerial offices, the Department for the Environment spent much than a 1000 pounds each connected 2 floor-standing lamps, and the Wales Office spent astir £4,000 connected reupholstering 5 leather chairs.

The figures were uncovered by Ms Thornberry aft a akin workout by Tory MP Ashley Fox revealed that ministers successful the caller Labour authorities had spent much than £130,000 connected furnishings and fittings for their offices successful their archetypal months aft arriving successful power.

In total, the figures uncover Tory ministers spent much than 12 times connected bureau refurbishment successful their past 2 years successful authorities than Labour ministers spent connected theirs.

“The superior constituent present is that we are facing a Tory enactment which is trying to unreal that the past fourteen years didn’t happen, and that the parlous authorities successful which they near our system and our nationalist finances should each beryllium magically forgotten,” Ms Thornberry added.

“It’s important for each of america that we don’t fto them get distant with that.”