Ten-Strong Civil Service Diversity Management Team Costs More Than £1 Million a Year – Guido Fawkes

EXC: Ten-Strong Civil Service Diversity Management Team Costs More Than £1 Million a Year

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The central Cabinet Office team responsible for monitoring and “assuring” the Civil Service achieves its diversity and inclusion targets has costs of over £1 million per year. Should have been sacked years ago…

The Civil Service Inclusive Practice Team is part of the Government People Group (HR) and has 11 full-time equivalent staff whose job is described in the latest “diversity and inclusion strategy” as to “monitor progress made, assure activity and report into the CS People Board to promulgate inclusive practice.” The personnel also maintain “a network of individuals and teams working to progress equality, diversity and inclusion from across all government departments, Devolved Administrations, Non-Ministerial Departments, Agencies and Non-Ministerial Public Bodies.“ Whatever that means…

A parliamentary question to the Cabinet Office has revealed the team has “annual operating cost including non-pay costs” of a whopping £1,092,548.37. For that you could:

• Buy 94 general purpose unmarked Metropolitan Police cars.
• Hire 41 new British Army privates.
• Fill 15,174 potholes.

The Labour government has repeatedly pledged to cut civil service numbers despite them increasing. It will have to find even more internal efficiency savings after successive spending U-turns. UK DOGE recommends starting with this team…