Waste amazing!British media: During the epidemic, the British government's vacant room heating lighting fee of 12 million pounds

Global Times Comprehensive Report Recently, many British families are worrying about their own energy bills, but they do not want to pay for the "empty" of government departments.

According to the British "Daily Mail" reported on the 14th, during the new crown pneumonia's epidemic, the "White Hall" (Avenue in Westminster, London, the British government departments are concentrated here) £ 12 million. As of March this year, the gas costs and electricity costs of the main government building of the Bai Hall increased by 1.2 million pounds from the previous year. Many taxpayers were dissatisfied with it.

It is reported that during the epidemic period, the personnel to the job decreased, but the vacant office of the white hall still had to light up, which caused many resources to be wasted for no reason. The latest data show that except for three departments last week, the number of employees from other departments in the Bai Hall was less than 2/3. There were less than half of the British Foreign Affairs and Federal Affairs Department and the General Tax Customs Department.

"The taxpayer pays high fees for his energy bills, and the government should manage energy more efficiently instead of allowing taxpayers to bear additional costs." Said John Ocomna, CEO of the Taxpayer Alliance Campaign Organization. A government official said: "The energy costs of government buildings have increased with global prices, which is consistent with office usage." The report said that 11%of the new costs were caused by energy companies' price increase. (Zhang Zixi)

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