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.
