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Chauffeur

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Proovides information, tips, advice and resources related to the chauffeur industry which typically includes chauffeur cars, limousine, coaches and buses. Provides articles on how to become a chauffeur and further training as well other other related issues from a hirers perspective.

While ministers tell motorists to use public transport, they spend £8m on chauffeur driven cars for themselves

The cost of chauffeuring Labour ministers in government cars last year was more than £8million, and despite their demands for Britain’s 30million motorists to think green and use public transport instead, Government ministers had access to 121 cars in 2007-8.

Norman Baker, the Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes, said the government was spending more on ministerial cars than on monitoring air pollution.

“Ministers should have to justify why they have a car at all.  This is all rather tacky and redolent of the fag-end of the government where some ministers are more interested in status and baubles and what they can get for themselves rather than serving the country.”

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