Calls for greater transparency in the credit
card spending behaviour of UK public sector staff are becoming
deafening as MPs have once again found themselves in hot water
regarding their expenses.
MPs have racked up almost a million pounds on
taxpayer-funded credit cards in two months and it is feared that if
spending data is released, it could provoke a reaction similar to
expenses scandal that hit the UK in 2009.
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An efficiency review on government procurement
cards was carried out in 2010 by retail entrepreneur Sir Philip
Green on behalf of Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude.
Green told the Daily Telegraph
procurement cards “do not allow government to control or monitor
spend efficiently”. He went on to recommend all transactions should
require authorisation after the review revealed 71,000 government
buyers could spend up to £1,000 ($1,631) a month on the cards with
impunity.
Curiously, at the same time MPs received their
new procurement cards for Commons allowances, they began to rein in
the use of similar cards by civil servants.
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