Given it’s self-assessment season, here’s a fun one. The bean counters over at HMRC spent 2025 beefing up their Diversity and Equality team throughout the year. Obviously at the expense of the taxpayer…
From January to September last year, HMRC spent an eye-watering £1,521,902 on total salary costs for its DEI team. The monthly costs to employ DEI staff have been ticking up, starting at £167,537 in January to £187,188 in September. Co-conspirators can use their imagination as to what they actually do. It’s probably not picking up the customer service helpline…
The government hands out £25 “Simply Thanks” awards to civil servants as an acknowledgement of their great work. In HMRC’s DEI team alone, 20 were given out between January and September. Nine of those awards were given out a month after staff planned an event titled “The Guilt of Being British” during working hours…
