EXCLUSIVE: HMRC Spending Over £1 Million a Yr on 16 Range & Inclusion Officers
In June, Guido reported on HMRC’s newest money splurge: three variety officer roles on salaries as much as £50,000. On the time, hiring simply three appeared extreme for a division whose essential accountability is to take cash from folks’s pockets. It seems that’s the tip of the iceberg.
A brand new Freedom of Data response reveals the taxman truly has 16 full time variety tsars on the payroll, at an astonishing price of £1,019,534 a yr. Since 2019, the overall invoice involves over £3 million. The Equality Act by no means meant it was unimaginable to cease 16 folks hoovering up thousands and thousands in taxpayers’ money during the last three years. This wasn’t inevitable.
That £3 million sum is only for the devoted variety brigade; the FoI makes clear there are others on the general public payroll who sometimes tackle these duties along with their “common duties”. Common duties on this case which means the precise work taxpayers anticipate them to do, corresponding to – for example – attempting to claw again the billions misplaced to COVID fraud…
Of the 16, one is on a Grade 6 wage, which reaches as much as £80,384 in London. 5 extra are on Grade 7, which tops out at £66,712. Then there’s the ‘Race Supply Programme’, which by some means has “16.87 full-time equal workers”, and a complete finances of £1.5 million for 2022-23. How is any of this affordable or justified? Hand over your pay cheques, HMRC have gotten rainbows to color and pronouns to put on…
