The Office for Tackling Injustices (OfTI) is a proposed UK government body announced on 12 July 2019.[1] It was said by Prime Minister Theresa May that it would work independently to encourage future governments to focus on addressing inequalities in society.[2] The body would collect evidence on disparities in areas including socio-economic background, ethnicity, gender, disability and sexual orientation.[3] Its role would be limited to collecting and publishing data, and it would not make any policy recommendations,[4] [5] leading it to criticism for duplicating data-gathering functions already performed by bodies such as the Office for National Statistics.[6] The Guardian described the OfTI as a way for May to secure a legacy before a new leader was elected by the Conservative Party membership.[7]
In March 2020, The Observer reported that the organisation had not convened or submitted a budget since its inception, with one unidentified participant stating "(it) doesn't exist – it is never going to exist. It has been thrown into the long grass... People involved in it have never even been told what the plan was. They have heard nothing."[8]