£113,000 worth of mobiles and tablets given to council staff

[dutchman]

MORE than £100,000 worth of iPads, iPhones and Blackberrys have been given to council staff – despite huge cuts to services in Coventry.

Data revealed under the Freedom of Information Act shows top-of-the-range mobile phone and tablet devices worth £113,000 were handed out for the first time last year.

Coventry City Council insists they were purchased at an initial “subsidised price” but admits to shelling out £15,754 on 95 iPads for senior officers and councillors.

It comes when the city council is losing a THIRD of its government funding. Over the next three years, £60million more cuts are expected as well as at least 800 more job losses.

The Taxpayers’ Alliance has hit out at the council for “buying the latest, most expensive gadgets when more cost effective alternatives are available”.

In total, iPads worth £40,375 were given to councillors, senior managers, adult education staff and the communications team.

[rebbonk]

Easy to spend other people's money isn't it? I bet the council wouldn't be so generous and up to date with technology if it was their own money they were spending.