Hunt sets out plan to shrink civil service

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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced plans to cut the size of the civil service, saying the move could save £1 billion a year.  He suggested that improving public-sector productivity could allow him to reduce the tax burden. Mr Hunt said: “If we increase public-sector productivity growth by just half a per cent, we can stabilise public spending as a proportion of GDP.” Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00 We have the best civil servants in the world,

00:04 and they saved many lives in the pandemic

00:06 by working night and day.

00:09 But even after that pandemic's over,

00:12 we still have 66,000 more civil servants than before.

00:17 New policies should not always mean new people.

00:21 So today I'm freezing the expansion of the civil service

00:25 and putting in place a plan to reduce its numbers

00:28 to pre-pandemic levels.

00:30 This will save one billion pounds next year.

00:33 (audience applauding)

00:36 (audience applauding)

00:39 (applause)

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