Time spent by Home Office staff on ‘woke’ work is equivalent to 19 full-time staff a year

TIME spent by Home Office unit connected woke broadside projects is equivalent to 19 full-time employees each year, it has emerged.

Fury erupted past nighttime aft a curate revealed that “network chairs” tin give 50 per cent of their moving hours to diverseness and inclusion schemes alternatively than their existent jobs.

It is overmuch higher than immoderate different departments that headdress the magnitude of clip astatine 10 per cent.

Critics past nighttime blasted the usage of payer funds that could beryllium utilized hiring officials to tackle burning issues similar stopping the boats.

In effect to a question by Tory adjacent Lord Farmer, Home Office Minister Lord Hanson said: “the full magnitude of clip allocated to web enactment by applicable officials is presently equivalent to 19 FTE (full clip equivalent) unit per year.”

The TaxPayers’ Alliance’s Elliot Keck said: “Taxpayers are sick of these talking shops taking up clip and money.

“The Home Office is beset by crises, yet determination are dozens of pen pushers with seemingly thing to do.

“Whitehall mandarins should prohibition these groups from utilizing moving hours oregon payer currency to operate.”

A Home Office root said: “This is precisely the aforesaid arsenic it was nether the tory government, 0.03% of the workforce are web chairs.”