Office-Shy Mandarins Spent £11,650 on Work From Home ‘Equipment’ – Guido Fawkes

Office-Shy Mandarins Spent £11,650 on Work From Home ‘Equipment’

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Pat McFadden announced this week that he was cancelling government procurement cards in a bid to tackle civil service waste. Though this is just a freeze – cardholders will now have to reapply and prove they really need them. No doubt Whitehall’s finest are already thinking of ways to pass that test…

Guido welcomes any effort to rein in taxpayer-funded excess, given what mandarins have been splashing out on. Between September and December last year, civil servants at the Home Office, Cabinet Office, DEFRA, and DCMS spent a staggering £11,650 on work-from-home office ‘equipment’, according to research by the Taxpayer’s Alliance. Despite the government’s best efforts to drag civil servants into the office three days a week, pen-pushers splashed the cash on home “footrests”, “noise dampeners”, chairs, and monitor risers. All very necessary of course for a productive day of shirking from home. Guido will be keeping an eye on how many of these mandarins manage to keep hold of their taxpayer-funded credit cards…