Foreign Office asks taxpayers to fund fees at top private schools

Taxpayers have been billed for more than £1 million to send diplomats’ children to Scotland’s most expensive private schools in the past three years.

The perk, paid out by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ( FCO), worked out at £29,945 for each of 14 pupils last year, an annual bill of around £420,000.

It included sending three children each to Fettes and Gordonstoun, the two most expensive private schools in Scotland.

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