Latest transparency statistics released by government departments show a whopping twelve of them are registering a lower attendance by civil servants since last year. Compared to only eight who have improved…
A comparison of the average of July, August, and September’s figures from 2024 and 2025 shows that DfT, the MoD, DHSC, and DEFRA are the worst offenders. Their average attendance has dropped by between 12% and 10% between those two periods. Justice, the FCDO, Home Office, DESNZ and Housing have all fallen according to latest statistics, with more civil servants staying at home…
DSIT is at 100% capacity now. HMRC has shown the second-largest increase of 16% to reach an average of 79% attendance since July this year. A worrying sign for your tax bills…
No other department has managed to increase attendance by 10% or more since Labour entered government. Put your feet up – there’s hardly any legislation to deal with anyway…
View the full figures below:
Starmer spoke to Nick Robinson for the Today Programme on Polanski’s criticism of the Golders Green police officers:
“I want everybody just to imagine what it might be like. You’re trying to arrest someone who has already attacked two people and has no regard for life. We know that tasers were fired. I know from my own experience with the police, that there are only two shots in a taser, and once you’ve shot them, there’s nothing left. There’s a guy on the ground, he’s got a rucksack on. And I don’t know what was going through the mind of those officers, but if I was there, I’d be thinking, he’s going to detonate something. He’s going to blow me up and everybody around here. In those circumstances, I think you can quite see why what could have gone through their mind is, we need to do whatever we can to disable this guy…
Now, when I then see Zack Polanski come out and retweet or support a criticism of that, I think it’s disgraceful… He’s not fit to lead any political party.”