Thousands splurged on government diversity training in 2024

President Trump has been hard at work scrapping diversity courses stateside and international companies have followed suit – with Goldman Sachs and Deloitte some of the latest corporations to bin off their inclusion schemes. Whether the UK government will take a leaf out of Trump’s book is quite another matter, however. The Tories have called on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to ‘unshackle’ Britain from equality initiatives while Reform’s Rupert Lowe has been busy quizzing the government on their DEI spend in 2024 – which, Mr S can reveal, has taken a not insignificant sum from the public purse…

In 2024, more than £1,000 of taxpayer’s cash was splurged on average every month on diversity training schemes by government departments. In 2024, the Culture Department spent a whopping £6,600 on a sign language course for 12 staff while the Ministry of Justice splashed over £2,000 on DEI courses. The Department for Business and Trade also racked up costs of £2,000 on inclusion initiatives last year, while in September alone, the Attorney General’s office spent £2,500 on a discrimination course for all of, er, nine staff members – working out at £300 per person.