He also says that your Department insist on ordering all pens, pencils, paperclips and so on centrally, and then distributing them against departmental requisitions.
In any case, new graduate students can learn who their advisers or temporary advisers are by visiting or emailing the departmental office and asking for the information.
And they have only just started: only a third of cuts to benefits and a fifth of those to departmental spending will be in place by the end of the financial year.