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ALMOST £2,700 of taxpayers’ money was used to send a senior councillor to an international conference in New York, it has been revealed.
County Hall bosses flew Matthew Tomlinson, the cabinet member in charge of transport, out to the US for the four-day event, saying it would benefit Lancashire.
But an opposition councillor has criticised the decision, insisting that the trip could have been undertaken at a lower cost to council taxpayers.
County Coun Tomlinson, the man in charge of Lancashire’s roads, flew out to the Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress in New York in November at a cost of £2,674.56.
Geoff Driver, leader of County Hall’s opposition Conservative group, said: “The question is: did we need to go to New York? If the answer is yes then we needed to go in the cheapest possible way and £2,700 does not seem to be that way.