Energy Department Spends £40,500 on Gift Vouchers After Taxpayer Credit Card ‘Freeze’ – Guido Fawkes

Energy Department Spends £40,500 on Gift Vouchers After Taxpayer Credit Card ‘Freeze’

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Co-conspirators will remember when Pat McFadden ordered an “immediate freeze” on government procurement cards back in early March. In February – before the so-called ‘freeze’ – Department for Energy, Security and Net Zero civil servants racked up a tidy £30,889 bill. In March, after the freeze was supposedly in effect, spending surged to £50,161. A 62% increase…

Somehow the pen-pushers managed to spaff £40,578 of that on a gift voucher company “Appreciate Group plc”. The firm offers “Love2shop Gift Card, a pre-paid gift card; Love2shop Gift Voucher, a multi-retailer voucher; Love2shop Holidays.” Taxpayer cash going up in smoke…

Last month Guido revealed staffing costs at the DESNZ had surged by £16 million since Red Ed Miliband took charge – hiring an extra 3,564 mandarins. More staff, more gift vouchers…