Congratulations to HMRC for winning the Best Large Public Sector Fleet title for the second year running, and the Business Mileage Management award for the first time. It was also runner up in the Leadership – Public Sector category!
The Awards are organised by the Energy Saving Trust, and supported by the Guardian and the CBI.
Pete Gleeson, Category Lead Travel and Transport at HMRC, told Public Sector Travel:
"I am delighted to receive these awards on behalf of HMRC, which recognise the work of our fleet team and pays tribute to the efforts made across HMRC.
We will now be turning our attention to what more can be done to reduce fleet/emissions further in 2011."
As noted, HMRC also won this last year and what I said then probably still applies:
"I assume that this hasn't been achieved by managers ditching cars and flying instead?
It would be interesting to see if flying miles during the last year have increased/reduced or remained static."
I refer to two comments made by readers at the time:
"Talk of saving CO2 is a nonsense.
Now that officers have to travel into the office first to pick up the pool car for their visits, it means that actual journey times and mileages and CO2 are greatly increased - but then again, the first leg of the journey doesn't count in the stats and HMRC and Gordon Brown's crazy world of Off Balance Sheet Financing."
"I wouldn't believe a word they said.
Since a mangers team could include staff in Belfast, Edinburgh or somewhere in England these people are never out of airports and jumping in taxis.
HMRC are a fucking laugh spouting off all this positive info. When you asked for some clarification on the departments restructuring or simply the future, it was like talking to a pack of dummies.
Plus should the overall costs not be down anyway considering that thousands of disillusioned staff have fucked off out of the place over the last few years?
A den of iniquity."
Comments on the reality of these energy/emissions savings welcome!
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An award for reducing fleet costs, but what about the productive work of assessing and collecting taxes that such "success" prevented?
ReplyDeleteGotta love that second quote. Priceless.
ReplyDeleteWhat a load of bollocks! They might cut 'emissions' but lets not overlook their stench which continues to breed and fester throughout the UK. HMRC should be fined for shitting on everything since its inception.
ReplyDeleteUsing their logic we could ged rid of all cars and reduce emissions to that nonsense which only comes down from above.
ReplyDeleteOh a feather in their cap then for farming work out to the private sector
ReplyDeleteReduce emissions?
ReplyDeleteMore like emissions going through the roof the amout of farting and bullshit that goes on among the management.
my friend was recently detained for questioning by hmrc officers, whilst being questioned and if they did not answer the officer kicked his legs which are still very sore and badly bruised and yet hmrc find this acceptable.
ReplyDeleteHe had to answer or face being assaulted by the hmrc guy. basically tortured and bullied into answering, they also took the mickey out of his family cos they were dyslexic.