Civil Service Spends £85,000 on Picture Movers – Guido Fawkes

Civil Service Spends £85,000 on Picture Movers

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Last month Pat McFadden announced on the Sunday shows Labour was pursuing “radical” reforms to ensure “the state can get better value for money” from the Civil Service. Three days before that DCMS handed tens of thousands in taxpayer cash to picture-movers…

UK DOGE’s The Waste Files reveals that the culture department on 5 March awarded a £85,000 one-year contract to “provide transport and installation services for the Government Art Collection.” Movers and hangers…

The public can’t ordinarily ever see any of the pricey Government Art Collection, which is housed in restricted government buildings around the world. For £85,000 you could:

• Buy 65 British Army standard-issue SA80 rifles.
• Fill 1,181 potholes.
• Call out 316 ambulances.

Rayner got civil servants in her private office to move her furniture for her. UK DOGE recommends costs are cut here…