Miliband’s pet project the “home grown energy company” GB Energy has no desks and no office of its own. Despite completing multiple hiring rounds…
GB Energy staff are instead based in DESNZ’s existing offices in Aberdeen on Huntly Street as well as in Edinburgh and Glasgow. An FoI release obtained by Guido specifies that “in Aberdeen, Great British Energy staff sit in existing space shared with other colleagues from the Department, and do not have a specific desk allocation.” In other locations there is also no desk allocation. Not that GB Energy boss Juergen Maier minds – his office is confirmed to be far away in Salford. Also sitting in departmental space…
As it recruits more staff DESNZ says it is “pursuing property options through the Government Property Agency which are currently under negotiation.” They don’t even need desks – GB Energy staff are only expected to come into the office 40% of the time…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”