Rayner’s department can’t even manage the artificially lower target of 37% office attendance that it set itself. MHCLG ministers said in Parliament in response to Tory David Simmonds:
“The Department expects colleagues to attend the office 50% of the time, except in four of our offices where attendance is capped at 40% due to capacity constraints. Once these capacity limits, agreed attendance exceptions and periods of leave are taken into account, our overall attendance target for July to September 2026 was 37%. During that quarter, we achieved 36% attendance, just one percentage point below the adjusted target.
The Department has clear guidance in place setting out office attendance expectations and regularly monitors office attendance for its employees as well as capacity utilisation. We are continuing to work collectively to support consistent application of the policy and to ensure that all staff benefit from the collaboration and learning opportunities that face-to-face working provides.”
Meanwhile Rayner is imposing 100% illegal migrant attendance on the village of Piddington…
Mail commentator Dan Hodges – who was kind to Burnham during the Makerfield campaign – now concludes: “The truth is Andy Burnham doesn’t have a 10 year plan. He’s barely got a 10 week plan.“