UK’s Pandemic Planning Agency Spends £130,000 Every Year on Work From Home Tools – Guido Fawkes

EXC: UK’s Pandemic Planning Agency Spends £130,000 Every Year on Work From Home Tools

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The UK’s Health Security Agency has charged taxpayers hundreds of thousands of pounds in three years for equipment to let its staff work from home. Time for that quango bonfire…

The Health Security Agency is a sponsored by the Health Department and “prevents, prepares for and responds to infectious diseases, and environmental hazards”. A parliamentary written answer reveals that the UKHSA has spent £396,941 on work from home “equipment” in the last three years. Of that £111,213 was spent last year. For that cash you could:

• Hire 12 new nurses.
• Buy 1,804,323 surgical face masks for doctors.
• Fund 1,336 A&E visits.

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