Trains Fares Minister Simon Burns MP Racks Up £80,000 in Car Trips

The Guardian have pointed out that Simon Burns, the minister responsible for rail, had been travelling to and from work from Chelmsford in a government car at a cost of £400 a day.

Burns claimed this was because he was not allowed to read sensitive papers on the train, but his claim was immediately contradicted by the Cabinet Office, although it was conceded that reading Red box matters in such an environment was not advisable.The cost to the taxpayer was estimated to be £80,000 per annum. 

Image: Simon Burms MP

ABC Comment: Sir Simon Hugh McGuigan Burns is a British politician, who served as Member of Parliament for Chelmsford since being elected at the 1987 general election until 2017 general election.

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