MPs have clogged up more than 7,000 toilets in the last two years

Civil servants person outgo the British payer implicit a hundreds of thousands of pounds clogging up their ain loos.

Government buildings person suffered much than 7,000 blocked toilets and urinals successful the past 2 years, information from the Cabinet Office and different departments person shown.

Toilets utilized by caller Tory person Kemi Badenoch, Bridget Phillipson and Michael Gove person each gone retired of order, with the Department for Work and Pensions being the biggest culprits.

The outgo of plumbing jobs to hole civilian servants’ toilets and urinals has deed astatine slightest £100, 396 since 2023, with the Cabinet Office unsocial spending £73,800 pounds to hole authorities loos crossed the country.

Civil servants person complained connected Reddit of the issues they look successful their workplace’s restrooms.

One said: ‘I request 2 hands to number the fig of toilet-related incidents I’ve experienced moving successful 1 peculiar department’

Another said: ‘In our bureau the women’s toilets person had issues for years wherever they odor similar s*** and the odor is truthful atrocious it wafts into the corridor and offices. It’s ridiculous.’

The shadiness chancellor is pushing the authorities to tighten its finances, but portion Mel Stride was successful complaint of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) determination was plentifulness of leaky washroom plumbing.

The DWP reported 5,000 toilet and urinal faults and blockages successful the past 2 years, the astir of immoderate section Metro has information for, arsenic good arsenic a staggering 24,400 since 2018.

The data, received by Metro aft state of accusation requests to aggregate authorities departments, shows that Esther McVey, Therese Coffey and Liz Kendall person each had to telephone successful the plumbers portion they led the DWP, though the section are incapable to accidental however overmuch was spent fixing their thousands of plumbing problems.

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), however, reported that a acold little 135 incidents from 2023 to 2024 outgo them £25,120 to address.

DEFRA, which is successful complaint of Britain’s sewage, has had to fork retired £75,707 to hole its ain department’s discarded absorption since 2019, with 266 blocked toilets reported successful that time.

The House of Commons, which has received thousands of complaints implicit stinky plumbing arsenic Parliament waits to beryllium refurbished, revealed 269 toilet clogs successful the past 2 years.

MPs and their staffers utilizing Commons’ facilities, arsenic good arsenic tourists, person besides been liable for a full 681 bog blockages since 2018.

Michael Gove, who once got stuck successful a toilet successful the House of Commons, was successful complaint of the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs erstwhile it was faced the highest fig of blocked bogs successful the past 5 years.

He was successful complaint of the Department for the archetypal 7 months of 2019, and from 2019 to 2020 DEFRA has revealed determination were 292 bath issues, costing £23,041.

Alongside reports from the DWP, DEFRA and the House of Commons, the Cabinet Office provided the remainder of the information connected toilet faults successful civilian work buildings done the Government Property Agency (GPA), which manages authorities buildings and facilities, including of galore departments, crossed the UK.

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