HMRC is spending up to £1.52 million a year on salaries for its Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team, according to documents seen by Guido’s FOI Unit. The taxman’s EDI operation now has 24.71 full-time equivalent staff…
The team is made up of 3 Assistant Directors on up to £87,612, 7 Senior EDI Consultants on up to £72,711, 9.12 EDI Consultants, 4.59 EDI Advisers and 1 EDI Officer. Guido’s calculations based on HMRC’s pay bands put the basic salary bill at between £1.24 million and £1.52 million. That is before gold-plated pension and National Insurance contributions…
HMRC refused to reveal the exact salary of the team’s highest earner and defended the team, saying: “By getting equality, diversity and inclusion right, we retain and recruit people with the skills we need and deliver effectively for our customers.” Yippee, the tax snooper in your home will be wearing a rainbow lanyard…
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2029: “that’s when the next election will be.”
May 2027: “Absolutely not.”
“No election any time soon.”
“All of this speculation on an early election, I can knock that dead.”