MP brings watchdog to book over £30,000 memoir
'Information could have been put on the internet for free'
A book about the history of Postwatch, the Post Office watchdog, has been slammed by South West Beds MP Andrew Selous.
The Conservative MP has branded the book, which cost more than 30,000 to produce, a "waste of taxpayers' money". Postwatch is on the verge of being disbanded and merged into a new organisation called Consumer Focus, and Mr Selous said the money would have been better used to help save local post offices.
Post Office Ltd announced in September that it would be closing its Eaton Bray branch and the High Street South and Luton Road branches in Dunstable.
Mr Selous said: "Postwatch could easily have put this information on the internet for free for anyone who was interested. This is a time when the government is short of money and I can think of a dozen ways in which this money could have been better spent in South Bedfordshire.
"The money could also have been used to maintain the post office branch network, as five post office have just been closed in the south west of the county."
All MPs received a copy of the book and Mr Selous says he has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer condemning the expenditure.
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