Public Sector: Redundancy

(asked on 28th January 2016) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of public sector workers who (a) have been made redundant in the last five years and (b) will be made redundant in the next five years.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 5th February 2016

The information requested on the number of public sector workers who have been made redundant in the past is available in the publication “Whole of Government Accounts”.The figures for 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14 are published in Note 7 of the relevant Whole of Government Accounts under the section titled ‘Civil Service and Other Compensation Schemes- Exit Packages’ available on the following website: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/whole-of-government-accounts

The Government does not forecast redundancy figures. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) publishes forecast changes in general government employment. These can be found in Table 1.12 of the Economic and Fiscal Outlook, Supplementary Tables here:

http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/efo/economic-and-fiscal-outlook-november-2015/

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