CASH-strapped councils are blowing more than £300,000 a year between them, figures show — on tea and biscuits. Top of the list is Lincolnshire, which has spent £16,000 while raising council tax and making £16million of cuts to services. Dorset forked out almost £14,000 on McVitie’s Family Circle biccies, Typhoo tea and Kenco coffee. Labour-run […]
CASH-strapped councils are blowing more than £300,000 a year between them, figures show — on tea and biscuits.
Top of the list is Lincolnshire, which has spent £16,000 while raising council tax and making £16million of cuts to services.
Dorset forked out almost £14,000 on McVitie’s Family Circle biccies, Typhoo tea and Kenco coffee.
Labour-run Hackney council in East London spent £8,144 on ethical Fairtrade tea and biscuits.
PG Tips proved to be the most popular tea, chosen by 38 councils — while 31 opted for Tetley.
Crawford’s Teatime was the most popular biscuit brand for council meetings.
The figures, from 278 authorities, were revealed by a Freedom of Information request made by The Mail on Sunday.
Harry Fone, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “Taxpayers will be boiling mad at these figures. Council tax rises every year, yet councils continue to take the biscuit.”
