Foreign Office staff subsidies bill for boarding school education rises by nearly a third in a year

The Foreign Office has spent more than £13m sending the children of diplomats to top private schools in Britain such as Eton and Winchester College

The government spend for the fees equates to an increase of nearly a third in a single year. And the figures suggest the average cost of subsidising private education for each child has reached its highest point in recent history.

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