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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Ashley Cowburn

Treasury spent £3,000 of taxpayers' cash on arty photos when Rishi Sunak was Chancellor

The Treasury forked out over £3,000 on a set of fine art photographs from the Tate Gallery while Rishi Sunak was Chancellor, Labour has revealed.

Despite already having access to the vast Government Art Collection - some 14,700 works - the purchase was made at the taxpayers’ expense in March 2021.

The figures were revealed as part of a Labour dossier spending on Whitehall’s credit card, known as the Government Procurement Card.

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