A London council approved spending £350,000 on iPhones for officials to make them “more efficient”.

Labour-run Brent bought iPhone 4 and 4s models, but also spent £42,500 on the top-of-the-range iPhone 5s. The figures were released to a local newspaper under the Freedom of Information Act.

Brent, which must cut £100 million from its budgets, earlier spent £46,000 on iPads for its 63 councillors and also 14 officers.

Reported by the Evening Standard. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.