Health Department Staff Spend £180,000 on Work From Home Gadgets – Guido Fawkes

EXC: Health Department Staff Spend £180,000 on Work From Home Gadgets

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Civil servants have consistently whinged about having to haul themselves into the office a mere three days a week. Still, they’ve been sparing no expense on making home-working as cosy as possible despite empty pleas from Labour to cut back on waste…

An FOI fired from UK DOGE reveals that pen-pushers at the Department of Health and Social Care spent a whopping £178,500 on work-from-home gear between January 2024 and April 2025. That includes an eye-watering £72,651 on chairs, £23,049 on desks, and a staggering £63,645 on monitors. An eye-watering £104,095 of that has been blown since Labour took office… 

For that you could:

• Pay for 369 hospital overnight stays.
• Fund 663 ambulance call-outs.
• Treat 80 heart failures.

The taxpayer may have a view on which should be prioritised. UK DOGE recommends costs are cut here…