Whitehall’s army of 180 diversity watchdogs
by James Heale, Mail on Sunday:
Whitehall mandarins have been criticised for wasting money on ‘non-jobs’ after it was revealed that at least 180 diversity officers are on the payroll across nine Government departments.
In a series of parliamentary questions, Tory backbencher Neil O’Brien asked Ministers how many members of their departmental staff had ‘one or more of the words “equality, diversity, inclusion, gender, LGBT or race” in their job title’.
Top of the pile was the Cabinet Office with 66 such employees, which included 41 members of the Government Equalities Office.
However, further staff within the department are likely to have equality, diversity and inclusion responsibilities within their roles, without it being in their job title.
Previous job advertisements suggest that senior staff in these positions could expect a salary of about £70,000 – nearly three times what a student nurse earns.
Duncan Simpson of the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: ‘This is what happens when Whitehall chiefs rush to be right-on.
‘It would be far better for every taxpayer if mandarins focused on rooting out waste, rather than obsessing with identity politics and growing the number of non-jobs. Sensible Ministers would do well to cut the number of these culture wars commissars.’
Read also: Parliamentary staff told to write poems about privilege on a ‘digital wall’ made after Black Lives Matter protests by Kate Dennett, Mailonline
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