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THE Ministry of Defence has come under fire following revelations that it has spent almost £13 million on hire cars for staff this year.
A freedom of information (FoI) request by the PA news agency also showed that the Department for Transport spent more than £1.1 million in the year to October, while other departments have spent tens of thousands of pounds.
The total figure from responses to the FoI request was more than £14.2 million.
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
Megapicket to shut down Birmingham’s refuse sites
Behind the cute names of Scotland’s road gritters lies a workforce underpaid and overlooked – a fitting reflection of a Budget that protected profits, bungled its rollout and offered hardly a glimmer of hope, writes MATT KERR
