China visit by Conservative Councillors

It has been revealed that there were at least eleven trips overseas by Conservative Surrey cabinet members in 2011/12 at Surrey taxpayers expense. Surrey administration does not maintain centrally a list of all trips by county councillors. Surrey's residents should be told why it needed two Conservative Cabinet members to go on a trip to China, why one cabinet member had to make six overseas trips and why none of these trips resulted in reports back to Surrey's Council by the Conservative cabinet members involved. Just as the Conservative cabinet councillors have cut their stays in a posh castle, they need to stop swanning off on unnecessary overseas trips at a time when Surrey residents are facing a 1.99% tax increase."