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

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.[…] Read the rest