A report published by the Central Office for Information found that across government, £94 million has been spent on the construction and set up and running costs of just 46 websites and £32 million on staff costs for those sites in 2009-10.
This is just a small drop in the ocean of how easy it is to overspend other people’s money. The previous overlords must have thought it was funny or clever to spent £126 million pounds on 46 websites. What kind of value is that. If there was ever a better way to illustrate that government is not the answer to every question asked.
The fact that there was not a riot about some of the things done in the past few years is beyond me.
Can you believe there is a website for national chip week – brought to you by The Potato Council. The amount of tax spent is £18 million just to help promote potatoes. We have spent £18 million promoting potatoes. No money left over to promote courgettes. Different government websites compete for attention. For example the Department of Health’s Change4Life healthy living campaign to try get you to eat less chips.
#1 by Deborah on December 9, 2010 - 10:37 pm
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Let’s take all this information to facebook where normal/logical/studentsand adults alike who have lived under the last government shall realise ‘WHO’ wasted so much money, and can therefore see where the ‘tax payers’ money actually went during those years in question…How LABOUR got away with it, I don’t know ???? Criminal!!