Uno su 10 lavori di servizio civile nel Regno Unito che si trovano ad AX

I hope it’s a lot from the DWP. Let’s see them go through the humiliation of trying to claim anything while unemployed

I wonder what happened in 2016 that causes the number of civil servants to go sharply upwards again.

So let’s just assume all 50,000 people cost £50,000 each to employ. That’s 2.5 billion. Pretty much Half of that comes back as tax, income tax ,NI, employers NI contribution, then other taxes they pay like VAT and council tax and it pushes all of these people into benefits themselves, does it actually save money?

>A 10 per cent reduction in the civil service headcount is seen in Whitehall as manageable.

Iv said this before and i’ll say it again. Is this a 10% reduction in the number of permanent civil servants? Or 10% of the total headcount working in the civil service? That’s two totally different things.

While there IS going to be a lot of admin roles lost soon to the use of AI to automate or do many admin curing roles, the work is still going to have to be done. This will mean probably recruiting more contractors at 3x time the cost to the taxpayer.

If its a 10% reduction in the number of permanent civil servants then those contract staff will go into the spreadsheet as “contract staffing”. If its 100% of the total headcount working in the civil service then those contract staff will probably be present as “resourcing”. Its just spreadsheet black magic. Work still needs to be done and people are still required to do it

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Reeves announced in March that Whitehall running costs would be cut by 15 per cent by 2030, a target that includes job cuts, a streamlining of the government estate and moving some posts out of London.

Well that’s great. Streamlining the estate means that it will be even harder for the CS to meet the silly office attendance mandates. In many locations you physically can’t meet the targets as you can’t get a desk when you need one. So if they are going to steamline even more that will have to be revisited.

Moving posts out of London is a good idea. But there needs to be a the recognition again that living in Yorkshire and commuting to Leeds or Manchester is just as expensive and often more difficult than living in the London commuter belt. The national pay scales get eaten up even more on travel costs as you either have to pay a lot for trains or drive into a city and pay for parking. Assuming there is a desk to go to. Again, they need to look at how they want the CS to work.

This is fantastic news its long time we separate the wheat from the chaff

What i don’t understand is the amount of comments mentioning that the civil service is bloated, but then complaining the length of processing time, asylum seekers, planning permission, potholes everywhere. Instead of cutting them surely they should be resigned into public areas where we need people.

Like always, the devil is in the detail in these things.

This could be anything from only a mild loss in productivity to cataclysmic. It just depends on how those 1 in 10 are axed and which 1 in 10 it is.