James Forsyth James Forsyth

What they spend your money on

The Portcullis column in The Sunday Telegraph has a quite astonishing tale of how the Department for International Development uses its money:

“Diligent Tory researchers have established that the ministry spent £8,500 on a survey to find out what sort of gifts British couples buy each other on February 14.”

When you think about the Department’s responsibilities this kind of wastage is really quite obscene. One wonders who on earth signed off on it. 

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