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Asked if the Prime Minister would be willing to meet Civil Service union leaders to explain the thinking behind the proposed 40,000 redundancies in the Civil Service as announced in yesterday’s Budget, the PMOS said it was important for the management of any organisation, particularly one as large as the Civil Service, to seek to ensure that the maximum efficiency savings were achieved consistent with delivering, and not jeopardising, the necessary services for the public. If, in doing that, it meant we were able to release extra resources for frontline services, he thought the public would welcome it and consider it to be a good thing. In terms of redundancies at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the integration of the Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise, no one was talking about immediate compulsory redundancies. This was about reducing the number of posts in the first instance. Asked if the reduction in the numbers of staff could be brought about simply through ‘natural wastage’, the PMOS said that natural wastage, recruitment freezes and the like were all issues likely to be looked at. No one should underestimate the Government’s desire to ensure that as much money as possible from the taxpayer went into schools, hospitals and other frontline resources wherever it was needed. Asked about the possibility of the number of job losses going above the 40,000 mark, the PMOS said that we would be looking for the maximum efficiency gains consistent with ensuring that Departments were able to carry out their core functions. By 2007/8, we expected to see an annual efficiency gain of £20bn.

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I am one of the civil servants that the Goverment has decided to get rid of. Can you please tell me what is to happen to us? I was not selected in to work in the Jobcentreplus organisation and having applied for MAVERS have not been released even though the office I work in is to close.

Along with my colleagues I am desperate to know what the future holds for us if anything as we are getting no information from our senior managers
Comment by Nina Mitchell — 26 Nov 2005 on 11:42 pm | Link
In answer to my own email failing a response to my request. It is with great sadness that I have left the civil service. I got the MAVERS I so longed for and although I am delighted to now be stress free (BP back to normal) I am sad that the government have chosen the centralisation route. No thought to the unemployed in great need!

Of course all will look well on the Government statistics when the number of compulsary redundancies are so small. It is worth remembering that hundreds if not thousands of us opted for the early release scheme to protect out own sanity.

So its call centres for Civil Servants and before long work being outsourced to foreign climes! Shame on you Mr Blair!
Comment by Nina Mitchell — 16 Feb 2006 on 10:02 pm | Link
In answer to my own email failing a response to my request. It is with great sadness that I have left the civil service. I got the MAVERS I so longed for and although I am delighted to now be stress free (BP back to normal) I am sad that the government have chosen the centralisation route. No thought to the unemployed in great need!

Of course all will look well on the Government statistics when the number of compulsary redundancies are so small. It is worth remembering that hundreds if not thousands of us opted for the early release scheme to protect out own sanity.

So its call centres for Civil Servants and before long work being outsourced to foreign climes! Shame on you Mr Blair!
Comment by Nina Mitchell — 16 Feb 2006 on 10:02 pm | Link
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