The Western Mail has been scouring through the searchable database on Assembly Members’ expenses and have come up with some more interesting facts.
They have led with the fact that nine Tory AMs spent more than £6,500 of taxpayers’ money on a ‘fact-finding’ trip to Brussels staying in what bills itself as the city’s best luxury hotel.
The paper also refers to the fact that Plaid Cymru’s two AMs for South Wales Central placed an advert in their own party’s conference handbook for £470. The Conference was held in Aberystwyth which is some way from the region they represent. This expenditure was on top of the £400 they each spent to use part of Plaid Cymru’s stand at last year’s National Eisteddfod.
Meanwhile, one interesting item of expenditure not featured in the paper is the £520 spent by each of Carmarthenshire West and South Pembrokeshire Tory AM, Angela Burns and Preseli Pembrokeshire Tory AM, Paul Davies for ‘press work’ to Hart Media Services. Presumably the extensive publicly-funded Tory press team in the Assembly were not up to the job.
There is no indication as to whether Hart Media Services has anything to do with Simon Hart, the Tory PPC for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire.
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