This morning’s Wales on Sunday refers to an interesting Freedom of Information release that raises further questions about the £121 per passenger public subsidy on the Anglesey to Cardiff air service, run by Manx2 and dubbed Ieuan Air by it detractors because it serves the Deputy First Minister’s constituency.
The question was how many times ministerial cars were travelling between Cardiff and Anglesey without a passenger (that missing passenger being, presumably, Deputy First Minister and Anglesey AM Ieuan Wyn Jones.
The answer: 32 times in the past two years: 13 times in 2008, 17 times last year and twice so far this year.
“These journeys were made to provide ministers with official transportation from Anglesey to other destinations,” explained the Assembly Government, thus cutting out the need for Mr Jones to chunder down the A55 in a normal car like everybody else.
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