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CARELESS police staff have cost the taxpayer nearly £3,000 in repairs after putting the wrong type of fuel in their vehicles.

CARELESS police staff have cost the taxpayer nearly £3,000 in repairs after putting the wrong type of fuel in their vehicles.

Figures slipped out by the government showed a total of 664 officials were over the threshold as of September - up 6.6 per cent from the 623 in 2021.

A total of £1.7 million has now been spent repainting planes

Boris Johnson forked out almost £800,000 ($1.1 million) taxpayers’ money to have a union flag painted on the Prime Minister’s plane, according to a FOI request.

The Cabinet Office initially tried to keep secret the cost of painting the Titan Airways jet. But he was forced to reveal the price following a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office

SNP delegates who attended last year’s Cop 27 climate conference spent a night in Italy and two weeks at a luxury Sharm El Sheikh beach resort, running up a taxpayer bill of nearly £150,000.

The true cost of the Government’s stealth tax raid was severely underestimated, a leading think tank has warned.

EXCLUSIVE: Just 29 per cent of staff at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) turned up at its Marsham Street offices in Westminster in the last week of May.

SNP MP Chris Stephens used the parliamentary expenses system to pay for a courier company to collect his phone from his Glasgow home and take it to London rather than pay for it himself.