Business Department Staffing Costs Surge by £10 Million Since Labour Promised to Cut Civil Service

Guido has been tracking Labour’s progress on cutting down Civil Service numbers since December last year. It’s not going well…

The Department for Business and Trade appears to have missed the memo. Figures quietly released show that since solicitor – ahem – trainee solicitor Jonathan Reynolds took over, the department has ballooned in staff costs…

In July 2024, DBT and its agencies employed 10,686 full-time-equivalent (FTE) staff, with an annual staffing cost of £61.5 million.[…] Read the rest