FOI reveals Prince Charles questioned ‘morality’ of flood defence cuts
Prince Charles, one of Britain’s biggest landowners, has strongly criticised the Government over its cuts to flood defences on private land. In blunt letters to the Environment Agency, the quango...
View ArticleFOI reveals fire brigades and cops spend £50k on team-building
Cash-strapped fire brigades and police forces have been slammed for wasting tens of thousands of pounds on team-building “jollies”, The Sun can reveal. London Fire Brigade – which is set to lose 13...
View ArticleFOI reveals chauffeuring ministers’ red boxes cost £350,000
The Government has spent more than £350,000 on chauffeur driving only ministerial briefcases around Whitehall in the last five years, HuffPost UK has found. It cost on average £125 each time documents...
View ArticleFOI reveals banned water cannon costing taxpayers £25,000 a year to maintain
The three water cannon bought by Boris Johnson are costing more than £25,000 a year to insure and maintain – despite never being fired. The London mayor snapped up the three second-hand Wasserwerfer...
View ArticleFOI reveals 43 Syrian refugees have been resettled in London
he capital has only taken 3% of all Syrian refugees given sanctuary in the UK since 2014, according to research by Citizens UK. The charity found that out of the 1,337 Syrians who have been resettled...
View ArticleFOI reveals top sick day for Welsh public sector staff
The top sick day for Welsh public sector staff in 2015 has been revealed as 8 January, according to new figures. It appeared eight times – more than any other – in the top-10 lists of sick days for...
View ArticleFOI reveals British Army’s secret plan to prop up South Africa’s ruling party
Britain’s Ministry of Defence has drawn up a secret report about how to keep South Africa’s ruling party in power at the next election, VICE has discovered. Freedom of Information Requests reveal that...
View ArticleFOI reveals closed libraries cost more to guard than leave open
A council that temporarily closed two libraries just before the exam revision season as a supposed money-saving measure has spent up to three times as much per day on private guards to secure the...
View ArticleFOI reveals cost of inquiry into Edinburgh tram project hits £3.7m
The cost of the inquiry into the Edinburgh trams fiasco has exceeded £3.7m, BBC Scotland has learned. The probe is investigating what went wrong with the £776m project which went massively over-budget...
View ArticleFOI reveals foreign government requests for info on UK cybercrime...
Foreign law enforcement agencies made a record number of requests to the UK government for information relating to cybercrime investigations in 2015, new intelligence has releaved. There were 1,652...
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