Trade Department Spends £246,000 on Working From Home Equipment – Guido Fawkes

EXC: Trade Department Spends £246,000 on Working From Home Equipment

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When UK DOGE uncovered that DHSC had spent £178,500 on work-from-home kit between January 2024 and April 2025 the entire unit was shocked. The trade department is actually worse…

UK DOGE can reveal that from January last year to May this year DBT spent an eye-watering £245,868.99 on home working equipment. £14,462 per month. This usually means monitors, desks, ergonomic keyboards, adjustable office chairs – co-conspirators know the drill…

Unbelievably the department does not bother noting down what exact “Home Working Equipment” has been purchased. It does record the cost though. Isn’t the whole point of trade that you can’t do it from home…

DBT says it is required “to ensure that workstation users, including those who work from home, perform a suitable and sufficient analysis of their workstation. This is achieved through a self-assessment tool that enables users to make adjustments to their workstation and identify if additional equipment is needed. Before purchasing equipment, users must complete mandatory health and safety training, a homeworking checklist, a DSE self-assessment, and obtain line manager approval.” So they ‘self-assess’ how much kit needs to be bought for them then some time-wasting bureaucracy is completed at which point it gets a big green tick…

For that cash you could:

• Buy 205 NHS hospital beds.
• Fill 3,415 potholes.
• Hire ten full-time British Army recruits.

UK DOGE notes that its sister unit Guido Fawkes’ studious reporting of civil servants losing countless digital gadgets every week has made its way to the mainstream media. Taxpayers will not have much truck with this blatant excess…