Ex-ONS Staff Refuse to Hand Back £32,000 Worth of Phones – Guido Fawkes

Ex-ONS Staff Refuse to Hand Back £32,000 Worth of Phones

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The Office for National Statistics has taken it’s fair share of flak recently for serious issues with its reporting. It announced last week that it had identified serious flaws in methods used to record producer price index (PPI) and services producer price indices (SPPI) which comes alongside the agency spending millions trying to fix a labour force survey it says is “virtually unusable.” Maybe it wasn’t such a great idea to move to Newport…

Research from UK DOGE’s The Waste Files has uncovered that ONS staff are about as keen to hand back taxpayer-funded devices as they are conducting an accurate survey. In the past five years employees leaving the job have kept hold of 61 free mobile phones with a combined value of £32,900. Last year alone £7,080 worth of telephones weren’t recovered. UK DOGE recommends departing staff are encouraged more robustly to give their free devices back…