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