Dedicated Diversity Jobs to Be Axed in Civil Service

Published on May 12, 2024

The government’s “common sense” minister has announced a ban on jobs dedicated to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in the Civil Service. Esther McVey claimed public money was being wasted “on woke hobby horses” in an article in The Sunday Telegraph. The Cabinet Office minister said that in future there would be no more devoted EDI jobs in Whitehall outside human resources, and no more staff working solely on EDI work. Under the plans, new guidance would stop all external EDI spending across the Civil Service unless it is specifically signed off and cleared by ministers. Ms. McVey said she would also be meeting arms-length bodies which had spent the most on external EDI, asking them to explain how this spending was benefitting taxpayers....

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