Development body's £5,000 flights

%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%Flights costing more than £5,000 were taken by board members at a part Government-funded development agency, a report by the National Audit Office has revealed.

Seventy percent of the Private Infrastructure Development Group's (PIDG) funding is from the Department for International Development (DfID), which was found to have "not ensured sufficient monitoring and transparency of PIDG administrative costs", according to the report.