Spooky headline but here’s the relevant paragraph.
>Civil service numbers have swelled every year since 2015 but there were particular spikes to deal with pandemic services as well as more staff to deal with the gradual devolution of benefits payments powers after the 2014 referendum
Parliament’s powers have grown, civil service has grown to meet it. Pretty much a non-story
Hope it resulted in an appropriate decrease in Whitehall staff
The thing I thought of was the anecdote about how the Commonwealth office employed more people after most countries had become independent, than when they were administered as colonies, much to everyone’s confusion.
If theres any dead wood to be trimmed I’m sure tory MSP Murdo Fraser (who never won a seat) can oblige.
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Are they getting twice as much done?
Spooky headline but here’s the relevant paragraph.
>Civil service numbers have swelled every year since 2015 but there were particular spikes to deal with pandemic services as well as more staff to deal with the gradual devolution of benefits payments powers after the 2014 referendum
Parliament’s powers have grown, civil service has grown to meet it. Pretty much a non-story
Hope it resulted in an appropriate decrease in Whitehall staff
The thing I thought of was the anecdote about how the Commonwealth office employed more people after most countries had become independent, than when they were administered as colonies, much to everyone’s confusion.
If theres any dead wood to be trimmed I’m sure tory MSP Murdo Fraser (who never won a seat) can oblige.
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