Women have been avoiding new £36,000 gender-neutral lavatories at the Home Office because men are leaving their cubicle doors open while they’re inside.
A notice has been placed outside the unisex toilets at the department’s Westminster headquarters asking men to ensure they only use them with the doors shut because their behaviour was keeping female colleagues away.
‘Women are finding use of the toilets quite distressing and are not using these toilets as a result,’ it continues.
Five male and five female loos have been converted to ten unisex facilities, each with three cubicles.
Freedom of Information requests revealed that the bill for remodelling them was £28,892.50, while signs bearing a picture of a lavatory and the words ‘Gender Neutral Toilets’ cost an additional £8,070.70, bringing the total to £36,963.20.
The Home Office said the WCs were designed to create a comfortable environment for all staff and that it was among a growing number of Government departments introducing gender-neutral facilities.
But James Price, of the Tax- Payers’ Alliance campaign group, said that if the new facility was not serving its purpose, it meant public money had been ‘effectively flushed away’.
He added: ‘Public spending should be predicated on how people behave in real life, not on how some mandarin thinks they ought to behave on paper. If these facilities are not being used properly, then lessons should be learnt to ensure money isn’t wasted on similar projects.’
Christian Concern chief executive Andrea Minichiello Williams said she was not surprised that women…
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