By Nigel Morris and Richard Garner
Monday, 16 November 2009

Education officials have run up a £10m bill for the taxpayer from first-class rail travel over the last three years. Civil servants bought an estimated 60,000 first-class tickets between 2006 and 2009. The scale of the spending – equivalent to just over 300 teachers’ salaries or four new primary schools – provoked anger among opposition MPs and parents’ leaders.The bill was accumulated by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), headed by Ed Balls, and by its predecessor, the Department for …

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