The Tax Payers’ Alliance has also hit out at councils across the UK for owning art collections worth nearly £1.9bn and only displaying less than a third of the pieces.
The pressure group said Manchester City Council topped the list, with a collection worth £369m, but only one in ten pieces on display.
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