We constantly see the misuse and abuse of government vehicles from transporting passengers to doing monthly shopping, yet our proposals to government which will eradicate fruitless expenditure is ignored. I had the fabulous opportunity to see how much a government department pays a travel agency daily to book accommodation for officials. Over a 4 month period this amounted to hundreds of thousands of taxpayers' hard-earned money yet we have secretaries sitting around doing absolutely nothing. Surely this fruitless expenditure could be saved by making secretaries responsible for doing these bookings themselves. I obviously do not name the travel agency for obvious reasons, but you know who they are.
We have a fabulous laptop and mobile phone application to track the movements of laptops and mobile phones anywhere and anytime. Rest assured that fruitless expenditure on staff misusing company time can be immediately curbed with this application, but government departments are not prepared to look and technology which will eradicate fruitless expenditure and expose government officials on the actual amount of work they do during a normal 8-hour shift. Imagine phoning a senior-manager not in the office and asking him where he is and he responds "At a meeting with Joe Soap in Transport" and on the software it shows he is at Game buying groceries!