Earlier this month, the Government announced the proposal to cut 91,000 civil service jobs, likely to be achieved through recruitment freezes, abolishing vacancies and enforcing redundancies.
This proposal is a bid to save £3.5bn of public money by reducing the number of civil servants back down to 2016 figures (384,000), prior to Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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