Ministerial Cars Spending Slashed Under Coalition

Ministerial Tyres Slashed - And Why That's A Good Thing

The coalition has slashed the bill for ministerial cars by nearly half since coming to power, it was announced today.

The cost of providing chauffeur-driven vehicles for Government members was £3.8m in 2010-11, down from £6.7 million the previous financial year.

"David Cameron remarked to me some months ago that, having read my account of the struggle to shake off a ministerial car, recounted in my diaries View From the Foothills, he was proposing to limit the supply of ministerial limos. And sure enough, he has delivered."

The prime minister has made good on the promise, with the number of ministers with an allocated car and driver falling from 78 to 13, according to the Department for Transport.

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