The trot of the Jet Globe of Foreign Secretary David Lammy accumulated an invoice of more than 1 million in just three months, recently published figures revealed.
The luxurious air trip invoice of the Secretary of Foreign Affairs reached £ 1,230,611,39 from October to December 2024.
The very high figure of heaven represents a substantial increase of 34.3 percent compared to the previous three months.
Lammy was criticized after it was previously revealed that the Foreign Secretary already spent £ 916,177 on flights on the first three months after the elections.
David Lammy during a private jet trip
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For each day during his most recent three -month period of reaction, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs spent £ 14,650 on air trips.
Most Lammy’s travel expenses were attributed to its use of the largest plane in the ministerial fleet.
Private flights in an Airbus A321-251NX (LR) represented £ 1,088,549.06 of the total invoice.
The remaining portion of the £ 1.23 million costs was spent on other forms of air travel.
These figures represent only Lammy’s personal travel costs during the three -month period, and the general expenditure of abroad travel from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reached 1,368,679.56 during this period.
Liz Truss chose to use a private plane during a visit to Australia
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Labor faced accusations of hypocrisy after Lammy used a private plane to travel to India for commercial conversations after the general elections of 2024.
Tory Cabinet Ministers for similar trips of balloons, Angela Rayner said: “Liz Truss shows the public exactly how little this conservative government has for the money of taxpayers with their ridiculous waste of half a million pounds on a private plane trip. This government is shameless in its breach for the defense of the defense.”
Foreign Minister Rachel Reeves also promised to take energetic measures against the use of private jet after Sir Keir Starmer entered NO10.
“I will treat taxpayers money with the same respect that people treat their own money,” Reeves said.
The Starmer’s government is also looking to represent the unnecessary expense of Whitehall after it was revealed that last year more than 675 million were spent on cards in the hands of the central departments and the central agencies.
Robert Clive statue outside the Office of External Development, Commonwealth also known as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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The Foreign Ministry has been accused of spending £ 2,400 in Copria Crystal, where a set of four glasses of grasmere wine costs £ 500.
Other £ 1,400 were spent on the department stores of London Fortnum and Mason’s, £ 600 in the chapel in the sparkling wine and £ 741 on shoes tailored to Carreduker.
In total, the Lammy department spent £ 521,525 in “restaurants and bars” in the first four months of the Labor Government.
The Foreign Ministry also paid £ 623 for southern tickets for South West Music and Tech Festival in Sydney.
Foreign Secretary David LammyPennsylvaniaResponding to Jet’s private spending from Lammy, a spokesman from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said: “In a moment of significant global importance, it is vital that the Secretary of Foreign Affairs can travel abroad, often in the short term, to defend and defend the interests of the United Kingdom.
“The ministerial travel plans are decided with the consideration of the best use of a minister and the general costs, in line with the established practice of successive governments.
“These costs are published routinely for transparency and are consistent with their predecessors in the previous government.
“This Foreign Secretary remains committed to guaranteeing the most profitable travel form, delivering the best value for the taxpayer.”
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