Saturday 27 August 2011

Mind Your Language

The Government has used tax payers money to pay for language courses for Westminster Mps.In the last five years, the scheme has cost taxpayers £110,279.58 -spent by 39 MPs who took classes in 11 languages ranging from Spanish, French and Italian to Urdu, Arabic and Sylheti, according to the Daily Mirror. Jeremy Hunt the millionaire Tory Government Minister has taken a course in Manderin which cost more than £2,500.
Former Labour minister Sion Simon spent £10,269.10 on Italian classes -and a further £185.06 on French. Ex-Labour MP Fraser Kemp used £6,341.61 for Spanish lessons. Former transport minister Stephen Ladyman spent £7,065.24 learning the same language. Jim Fitzpatrick, shadow transport minister, spent £1,000.22 learning Sylheti, usually spoken in Bangladesh. Tory Daniel Kawczynski and Labour’s Mark Lazarowicz forked out £540.50 and £1,300 each learning Polish.

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