"Disbelief as undermanned Royal Navy spends £2.4million on 'diversity and inclusion team' 

Daily Mail: 6th April 2024: Report on seven-figure sum that has been spent on 'inclusion staff' in the Royal Navy

"The Royal Navy has splashed out £2.4million on dedicated diversity and inclusion staff in recent years at a time when defence budgets are more constrained than ever, ministers have admitted.

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps is waging war on what he sees as 'woke' and wasteful diversity pushes, including internal jobs inviting serving marines and sailors to be redeployed as diversity and inclusion officers within Britain's navy.

But his parliamentary under-secretary has admitted to spending the seven figure sum on diversity roles in the service since 2019 - prompting disbelief from a former minister who has called for the money to be spent elsewhere...

The figure on diversity spending came from an answer to a parliamentary question given by defence under-secretary Andrew Murrison to Mr Hayes, who has exposed much of the workings of the military's push for diversity... The Navy had spent £2,445,980 on salaries for people employed in 'dedicated diversity and inclusion policy roles from 2019 to 2023'...

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[PopCon says: This reminds of a similar story from March when the Mail reported "Woke Whitehall jobs 'cost the taxpayer £7 million' as 166 officials work in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion roles". Just how much does EDI (Equality, Diversity & Inclusion) really cost UK PLC?]