Govt watchdog blows £20K on fine dining

The Commission, whose mission statement is to drive economy, efficiency and effectiveness in public services, allowed officials to use corporate credit cards to pay for fine dining, cinema tickets, doughnuts, clothing, gym equipment, sweets and music from HMV. Officials spent hundreds of pounds at Marco Pierre White's L'Escargot, frequented by Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, as well as a brasserie owned by celebrity chef Raymond Blanc, the Daily Mail reports. In the past three years, the body, which is due to be axed in the government's quango cull, spent £4.7m alone on hotel roo...