Officials at the Government Digital Service have launched a new web-tool to calculate the cost of UK Civil Service meetings. It’s not 1 April yet…
The free tool, labelled “Civil Service Meeting Cost Estimator“, was posted over the weekend by a director at the GDS. It allows users to select the length, attendee number, regularity, and seniority of meetings before providing their repeating costs. After feedback from fans of meetings the tool was updated to include checkbox for “mitigation of full-spectrum disasters” which changes the result to “Value delivered: millions saved.“ Value which is no doubt claimed by every meeting organiser in Whitehall…
Civil Servants clearly also drew inspiration from Guido’s UK DOGE project – meeting costs are compared at the bottom with the cost of hiring an NHS nurse. Co-conspirators can play with the tool above. If it takes this level of nudging to get pen-pushers out of their pointless meetings…
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood introduced her speech on migration reforms at the IPPR:
“There’s no denying we meet at a difficult time for my party.”