BBC News:
Announcing its recommendation, Sir Alan Haselhurst, chairman of the committee, said the trial had cut MPs’ costs by “several thousand pounds” as they could circulate information electronically rather than in hard copy.
British MPs may get iPads
so what are those 5 computers being used for. Something tells me that at least one of the laptops could be cut from the list if the MPs have iPads or some other tablet. Because it’s very likely that that laptop is being used by the MP or by an assistant following them around all the time. And if it’s just to look at documents, read email etc then that is covered by the tablet.
As for the money saved I can believe it. Labor costs in doing photocopies/printouts and running them around to all the right folks alone can be a pretty penny. And then there’s the machine maintenance, the paper, the ink/toner