Ofgem Officials Take Thousands of International Flights Despite Only Regulating Energy in Britain – Guido Fawkes

EXC: Ofgem Officials Take Thousands of International Flights Despite Only Regulating Energy in Britain

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Labour ministers have long-since settled into their business class seats and are in the global jet-set, and now Guido can reveal they are regularly joined by bureaucrats over at Ofgem. Yes, the domestic energy regulator is paying for its staff to fly around the world at your expense…

According to an FOI from the TaxPayers’ Alliance seen by Guido, Ofgem staff managed to rack up a staggering 2,509 flights between April 2022 and March 2025 – that’s more than one flight a day. Not bad for a bunch of pen-pushers whose only remit is in the UK…

Destinations include such exotic regulatory hotspots as Qatar, Sweden, Denmark and Norway – despite there being no plausible reason that Ofgem officials ever need to go abroad in person. Even more absurd, many of the flights were within the UK – jaunts between London and Glasgow, Manchester, the Shetlands, and even Bristol. Ever heard of a train?