Ed Miliband’s Net Zero push has seen costs balloon and staff numbers surge by up to 382% across Britain’s top four energy quangos. The Telegraphhas the story:
Ofgem, the Climate Change Committee, the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) and Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC) have all exploded in size over the past decade as Britain races to cut climate emissions, a study from the Taxpayers Alliance (TA) found.
Among the biggest beneficiaries is the little-known LCCC, which administers the UK’s multi-billion-pound annual Net Zero subsidies to generators.
It has seen its headcount soar by 382% from 49 employees to 236 staff while costs have also tripled, TA said on Tuesday.
Those costs are set to more than double by 2029 as more subsidised wind, solar and other projects commissioned by Mr Miliband come into operation.
Similarly, regulator Ofgem saw expenditure rise by 237% from £77 million to £260 million while its headcount more than doubled from 907 staff to 2,276, making it one of the largest energy regulators in Europe.
Much of the growth in all four bodies is linked to the increasing focus on achieving Net Zero targets, the growing complexity of the UK’s energy systems and especially decarbonising electricity.
The data covers 2015 to 2025, meaning Mr Miliband was in charge of energy policy for only a small amount of that period. However, the Labour Energy Secretary has dramatically stepped up the country’s Net Zero push since coming to power.
The Climate Change Committee’s headcount rose 89% from 30 to 57.
A Government spokesman said such quangos were good value for money. “Net Zero is the economic opportunity of the century… We are absolutely focused on ensuring every pound spent of taxpayer money delivers for the public”.
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RTSC
3 months ago
“A Government spokesman said such quangos were good value for money.”
For the Socialist Lanyard Class. For everyone else they are parasites.
Hester
3 months ago
I will vote for any party that says it will get rid of all Quangos, all SPADS, and get rid of foreign aid, the Department for Education, The one doing Sport, and all the other Government interfering parasite departments
BevGee
3 months ago
Slightly off topic but related… I was zipping around in my little ICEd car today and passed two limping EVs – they don’t seem to do well in warm weather 😀
st27
3 months ago
I’m always impressed at how this site can always find yet another photo of MilliWatt looking stark, staring, counting-the-elves-flying-about-on-little mushrooms bonkers.
I’m reminded of a notice in the back of an airport taxi in Shanghai. Apparently genuine and in multiple languages, the English part included: Psychos must be accompanied by their minders.
JXB
3 months ago
Please, please: Trigger warning and health warning before showing pictures of that bacon-strangling, psychopath.
The DS reckons we must have a daily reminder of the Milibund. Rumour is that there will be a DS 2027 Miliband pin-up calendar – order now to avoid disappointment.
When is this economic opportunity going to be turned into the profit making enterprise that has been promised. They have been dangling that carrot for decades and it is looking a bit wrinkled and unappetising by now.
To many it was obvious from the start that it never would and the further we move down the path of this insanity the clearer it becomes to more people. Still, if ever you need cheering up there is always blackoutnews.de where you read that inward investment into Germany is at the lowest level in 17 years, and falling, and job losses in the first quarter of the year are 486,000. Net Zero allied to idiotic over regulation and a Far Left government.
stewart
3 months ago
This is top tier, grade A, premium corruption. The type that is completely legal, fully funded by taxpayers and so expansive as to involve so many people on the take that you’ll never be able to dismantle it.
What I would give to have good old fashioned, cash in envelopes type of corruption. The type that is simple, everyone can understand and can see is wrong.
The kind of corruption we have now is so sophisticated and cloaked in virtue that most people don’t even recognise it as corruption.
I know. I miss living in Hungary, which everyone knew was corrupt, where corruption happened through wads of cash in Nokia-phone boxes. There was, actually, corrupt business and non-corrupt business and you could tell the difference. Here in the UK, where we’re so virtuous and advanced compared to those “primitive Magyars”, the whole edifice stinks.
We’ve just legitimised it and stepped it up orders of magnitude. I wouldn’t really care that much if MPs, etc. received bungs for stuff, that’s just expected. It’s the fact that they’ve made it legal by dressing up the “bungers” with fancy names and fancy reasoning, and using our money to pay the bungs.
Cotfordtags
3 months ago
Don’t worry, Milibrain has managed to offset all of these costs by banning the RAF from flying anywhere, imposing restrictions on the type of fuel they use. Oh, hold on, he says , the recycled chip oil costs a billion more than standard jet fuel, bugger it, let’s just shut down things like the Red Arrows, that’ll do it, but don’t you dare stop me and my cabinet mates using that lovely Voyager with the snazzy paintwork.
BevGee
3 months ago
“A Government spokesman said such quangos were good value for money. “Net Zero is the economic opportunity of the century…” Ha ha ha. For whom, mate? You?
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“A Government spokesman said such quangos were good value for money.”
For the Socialist Lanyard Class. For everyone else they are parasites.
I will vote for any party that says it will get rid of all Quangos, all SPADS, and get rid of foreign aid, the Department for Education, The one doing Sport, and all the other Government interfering parasite departments
Slightly off topic but related… I was zipping around in my little ICEd car today and passed two limping EVs – they don’t seem to do well in warm weather 😀
I’m always impressed at how this site can always find yet another photo of MilliWatt looking stark, staring, counting-the-elves-flying-about-on-little mushrooms bonkers.
But perhaps it’s actually not that hard.
I always think Wallace & Grommit when I see him for some reason. Maybe it is the forlorn hope that he is just an animation character and not real.
How often does he escape from his carers?
I’m reminded of a notice in the back of an airport taxi in Shanghai. Apparently genuine and in multiple languages, the English part included: Psychos must be accompanied by their minders.
Please, please: Trigger warning and health warning before showing pictures of that bacon-strangling, psychopath.
The DS reckons we must have a daily reminder of the Milibund. Rumour is that there will be a DS 2027 Miliband pin-up calendar – order now to avoid disappointment.
Ensure disappointment, no?
We should have a caption competition.
My entry is ‘Here are my two braincells and you can see they are not even connected.’
…and one belongs to Chris Stark.
When is this economic opportunity going to be turned into the profit making enterprise that has been promised. They have been dangling that carrot for decades and it is looking a bit wrinkled and unappetising by now.
It is already, in china, and I have no doubt milliband is getting a piece of the action.
As was mandelson and quite possibly starmer and blair.
To many it was obvious from the start that it never would and the further we move down the path of this insanity the clearer it becomes to more people. Still, if ever you need cheering up there is always blackoutnews.de where you read that inward investment into Germany is at the lowest level in 17 years, and falling, and job losses in the first quarter of the year are 486,000. Net Zero allied to idiotic over regulation and a Far Left government.
This is top tier, grade A, premium corruption. The type that is completely legal, fully funded by taxpayers and so expansive as to involve so many people on the take that you’ll never be able to dismantle it.
What I would give to have good old fashioned, cash in envelopes type of corruption. The type that is simple, everyone can understand and can see is wrong.
The kind of corruption we have now is so sophisticated and cloaked in virtue that most people don’t even recognise it as corruption.
I know. I miss living in Hungary, which everyone knew was corrupt, where corruption happened through wads of cash in Nokia-phone boxes. There was, actually, corrupt business and non-corrupt business and you could tell the difference. Here in the UK, where we’re so virtuous and advanced compared to those “primitive Magyars”, the whole edifice stinks.
We’ve just legitimised it and stepped it up orders of magnitude. I wouldn’t really care that much if MPs, etc. received bungs for stuff, that’s just expected. It’s the fact that they’ve made it legal by dressing up the “bungers” with fancy names and fancy reasoning, and using our money to pay the bungs.
Don’t worry, Milibrain has managed to offset all of these costs by banning the RAF from flying anywhere, imposing restrictions on the type of fuel they use. Oh, hold on, he says , the recycled chip oil costs a billion more than standard jet fuel, bugger it, let’s just shut down things like the Red Arrows, that’ll do it, but don’t you dare stop me and my cabinet mates using that lovely Voyager with the snazzy paintwork.
“A Government spokesman said such quangos were good value for money. “Net Zero is the economic opportunity of the century…” Ha ha ha. For whom, mate? You?
How does charging us hundreds of billions to subsidise intermittent generation become an economic opportunity I wonder?
A straight out and out lie there.
Exactly my takeaway from that.
The picture on this article shows Mr Milibrain explaining the future direction of energy costs and taxpayer subsidies for his braindead policies.