Welsh Arsembly - more waste

Fresh from sending public officials on a freebie day out down the local mosque, sorry a positive learning experience promoting tolerance and understanding etc etc...

Now we have this gem showing more waste from the talentless shits that float about in the toilet that is the Welsh Arsembley.

Idle Welsh quangocrats paid £2m pa- "FORMER quango employees are being paid around £2m a year without having been found a proper job by the Welsh Assembly Government... Around 70 members of staff are still waiting to be slotted in to new roles more than 18 months after three quangos were merged with the Assembly Government... “The whole thing has been ill-thought-out, ill-planned and quite obviously ill-delivered.” (Western Mail 17.10.07)

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FORMER quango employees are being paid around £2m a year without having been found a proper job by the Welsh Assembly Government, it has been claimed.

According to an Assembly source, around 70 members of staff are still waiting to be slotted in to new roles more than 18 months after three quangos were merged with the Assembly Government.

The Welsh Development Agency, the Wales Tourist Board and Elwa, the education quango, were merged with the Assembly Government in April last year.

An email sent by an Assembly source to the Conservative economy spokesman Alun Cairns states, “An update on the ‘pool’ of staff that are waiting to be slotted into posts within the WAG. As of this month there are 70 staff in this pool, 20 at Band C or that equivalent management grade, but on a different salary scale; and 50 of a higher grade.

“Estimated annual salary of those waiting to be slotted into roles within the WAG is around £2m.”

Mr Cairns said, “I am shocked by this. It is now more than three years since it was announced that the WDA and the other bodies would merge with the Assembly Government – and the Assembly Government is still spending money it was supposed to save.

“We were told the merger of the quangos with the Assembly Government would result in real savings. Now we learn that millions of pounds are being wasted.

“It seems to me the administration is caught between two stools – the desire to drive forward efficiency savings and not being able to wield the axe when it could be argued it’s necessary.

“I’m not for a moment criticising the individuals involved – they are pawns in this. But the fact that there are still 70 people with combined salaries of £2m unable to make a valuable contribution demonstrates strongly this process has been handled appallingly.

“The whole thing has been ill-thought-out, ill-planned and quite obviously ill-delivered.”

Jeff Evans, senior national officer in Wales for the PCS civil servants’ union, said, “I think it’s quite wrong to give the impression that there are 70 people sitting round twiddling their thumbs. The pool is very fluid, as I understand it, with people coming in to it on a weekly basis and others being allocated to new jobs.

“There has been quite a lot of restructuring at the Assembly Government. So far as the merger process is concerned, the great majority of staff from the former organisations have been assimilated into the Assembly Government without a hitch. But there have inevitably been complications. Bringing together a number of different IT departments and human resources departments, for example, can create savings through economies of scale, but achieving that can take time.

“We’ve had a two-stage process: the first was about managing the merger, and now we are into a later stage which is about making budget cuts.”

Mr Evans said he wasn’t sure what those in the pool were doing.

An Assembly Government spokesman confirmed last night there are 69 staff members in the pool. Employees on Grade C, the lowest ranking of the civil servants, are on a pay scale ranging from £17, 016 to £22,200.

The spokesman said, “The Assembly Government is a large employer and needs to be flexible in the ways in which it responds to new challenges. As our priorities change, new roles for staff are regularly identified and other posts are no longer needed. We therefore maintain a list of staff filling short-term posts or posts that are likely to be removed in the near future.

“Once added to the list, staff remain in their current position until a suitable role is identified. We work hard with individuals to achieve a good match of skills and experience to any new role.”

The list also identifies staff who are not working in the Assembly Government at present, but are on secondment to other organisations, on maternity leave or a career break.

**Strange how our local MP's are not up in arms over this waste of taxpayers money, especially as they are so overworked that they have to have even more holiday time(a total of 91 days a year - sure beats having to work for a living!) so maybe they can not pull themselves away from the beach or free junkets to Pakistan(paid for by his party) to look into this matter of public money being pissed away on lazy bastards by the cunts in the Welsh Arsembly.

Tags: Welsh Assembly, waste, Quangos, Loonies, Political Correctness, Cool Britannia New Labour

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