The civil service will be told to get more than £ 2 billion a year from budgets towards the end of the decade, because Rachel Reeves desperately tries to balance the books.
At the end of the decade, the administrative costs must fall 15 percent in Whitehall under a new disk, with jobs that are expected to go.
The order has emerged days before the crucial spring statement of the Chancellor.
Experts believe that she should fill a black hole of £ 10 billion in public finances – or possibly more – even though they have already announced £ 5 billion in curbs for benefits.
Her autumn budget plans have been thrown away by an alarming delay in economic growth and the rising costs of debts – fearing that the raid in national insurance and the trade war of Donald Trump are about to make it worse.
But Mrs. Reeves has excluded the flat increase in taxes in this package, which means that the money must be found due to cuts.
That could feed a budding uprising among the working lists that are shocked about 'cutbacks'.
Plans for cutbacks on the budgets of the civil service services have emerged days before the crucial spring statement of the Chancellor (photo)
“We are not going to make a tax increase,” Mrs. Reeves said the sun on Sunday.
“We had to determine some taxes on companies and the richest in the country in the budget,” she said about the autumn budget last year.
“We won't do that in the spring statement.”
The cabinet office will tell departments to lower their admin budgets – such as for HR, policy advice and office management – by £ 2.2 billion a year by 2029-30.
They will first be asked to reduce the budgets by 10 percent by 2028-29 in an attempt to save £ 1.5 billion. The head of the FDA trade union said that this amounts to almost 10 percent of the salary account for the civil service.
Departments received instructions in a letter from Chancellor from the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden in the coming week.
A cabinet office said: 'To deliver our plan for change, we will reform the state so that it is suitable for the future. We can't stay as usual.
“By reducing administrative costs, we can focus on resources at Frontline services – with more teachers in classrooms, extra hospital agreements and police back on the beat.”
FDA Secretary -General Dave Penman said that the trade union welcomed 'rough headcount objectives', but that the distinction between the back office and the front line is 'artificial'.
'Elected governments are free to decide on the size of the civil service that they want, but cutbacks of this scale and speed will inevitably have an impact on what the civil service will be able to make for ministers and the country.
'While we welcome the move of goals of rough workforce, the distinction between back office and front line is an artificial one.
“For many departments, the budgets that are reduced will be involved in most of their staff and the aforementioned £ 1.5 billion savings amount to almost 10 percent of the salary account for the entire civil service.”
He urged the ministers to set out which work areas they want to stop as part of expenditure plans.
'The idea that cuts from this scale can be supplied by cutting HR and Comms teams is for the birds.
The total of £ 132 billion for the year to February is £ 20.4 billion more than the OBR prediction of the Treasury in October as October
“This plan will require that ministers are fair to the public and their officials about the impact that this will have on public services.”
Mike Clancy, general secretary of the Prospect Union, warned that 'a cheaper civil service is not the same as a better civil service'.
'Prospect has consistently warned the government about the adoption of random goals for cutbacks in the field of civil servants that are more about saving money than about the real reform of the civil service.
“The government says they will no longer fall into this fall. But this requires a correct assessment of what the civil service will and will not do in the future. '
The move comes after Sir Keir Starmer promised to reform the 'weak' and reduce the costs of bureaucracy, and for the Spring Statement of the Chancellor.
