More than 10,000 civil service jobs are set to be cut under ministers’ plans to find savings of 5 per cent to their departments in the spending review, according to government figures.
Ministers are looking at rolling out voluntary redundancy programmes across a range of departments to achieve the savings that chancellor Rachel Reeves has demanded as part of her comprehensive review of expenditure.
Headcount in the civil service topped 513,000 this year, a 34 per cent increase on 2016 levels and the eighth year in a row that the total has risen.
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