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28 Oct 2021 Economy

Budget Red Book Reveals Civil Service Headcount Cuts For ‘Non-Frontline’ Staff

The government plans to reduce 'non-frontline' civil service headcount to pre-pandemic levels as part of plans to reinvest 5% of departmental budgets into “priority areas” by 2024-25, Budget documents have revealed.

12 Aug 2019 Brexit

Ministers accused of 'shameless spin' over launch of no-deal Brexit media rebuttal team

Ministers have been accused of launching a “shameful spin machine” by setting up a team committed to hitting back at media reports about a no-deal Brexit.

28 Jun 2018 Political parties

Fresh pressure on Philip Hammond as Whitehall unions reject 'shambolic' pay plan

Chancellor Philip Hammond is under fresh pressure to ditch his hardline stance on public spending after all three civil service unions rejected "shambolic and contemptible" Treasury plans to keep their pay capped.

24 Oct 2017 Economy

Major trade union boss says a Jeremy Corbyn government would be undermined by Whitehall

The leader of one of Britain’s largest trade unions has said senior civil servants would try to "prevent" carrying out the demands of a Labour government.

31 Jul 2017 Brexit

Minister reveals plan for raft of public bodies outside London post-Brexit

Some 20 public bodies are set to spring up across the country as the civil service takes on new work as a result of Brexit, a minister has revealed.