Credit Where It's Due Part N

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3d8385k2xet

I'm starting to warm to the chancellor. She's bang on it should be more than possible to reduce the civil service bill by 15%.

[davebro3]

I'll wait till the Sir Humphries start their manipulations to see if she can deliver.

[Ellipsis]

She gets to the answer without showing the working out ...

[naomi24]

I thought the government were in the process of setting up new bodies.  Hardly cutting back.

[DDIL]

There is too much upper management. A recent attempt at reducing these numbers failed because the offered package was not sufficient.

You cannot just sack performing staff.

[THECORBYLOON]

"I thought the government were in the process of setting up new bodies." which bodies do you mean?

[naomi24]

I can't remember, Corby.  Just something I read.

[davebro3]

//Keir Starmer has announced plans to scrap one quango – after the Government he heads created 27 in eight months//

from The Telegraph  11 March.

[davebro3]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/03/11/labour-axes-one-quango-after-creating-27-in-eight-months/

[naomi24]

Thanks Dave, I knew I'd seen it somewhere.

[davebro3]

The quangos created by Labour since it was elected to power

Regulatory Innovation Office

National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority

Great British Energy

Mission Control

National Energy System Operator

Solar Taskforce

Border Security Command

Jet Zero Taskforce

British Infrastructure Taskforce

Creative Industries Taskforce

Circular Economy Taskforce

Tree Planting Taskforce

Child Poverty Taskforce

Flooding Resilience Taskforce

Motor Insurance Taskforce

New Towns Taskforce

Onshore Wind Industry Taskforce

Skills England

Industrial Strategy Council

Passenger Standards Authority

National Jobs and Careers

Ethics and Integrity Commissioner

House of Commons Modernisation Committee

School Support Staff Negotiating Body

Independent Football Regulator

Fair Work Agency

Defence Innovation Agency

[DDIL]

But the staff working in there will primarily have come from OGDs so what do you do with those staff if you close them down?

[naomi24]

Presumably they'll be made redundant.

[davebro3]

The armed forces seem to recruiting quite vigorously...

[naomi24]

//Rachel Reeves to cut 10,000 civil service jobs in effort to lower government costs//

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/23/rachel-reeves-promises-economy-and-living-standards-will-improve

 

 

[naomi24]

How many will have to claim benefits because they can't find alternative employment?

[davebro3]

The Observer: //Pressure continues to mount for the chancellor on the front page of The Observer, where the paper's headline reports that "All families to be worse off by 2030 as poor bear the brunt", at least according to "grim" new economic analysis.//

Who to believe?

[naomi24]

//Who to believe?//

 

Not this government.  Not a word of it.

[theshedman]

It took Trevor Phillips 6 attempts to get her to say it would be around 10,000 jobs that would be at risk.  The others on his show said that they would believe it when they saw it happen.

[naomi24]

//Reeves to cut £2bn from Civil Service as unions warn of massive job losses//

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/03/22/reeves-to-axe-thousands-of-civil-service-jobs/

 

Im not sure there's any credit due here, TTT.

[ToraToraTora]

anything that reduces the size and cost of the state is good.