Modest Civil Service Staff Cuts Could Reverse Farm Tax Ten Times

Policy Exchange has just dropped a new report by ex-Home Office director Stephen Webb estimating that £5 billion a year could be saved by cutting 80,000 roles in the civil service. That could reverse the family farm tax, from which the Treasury hopes to bring in £500 million a year, ten times over…

The report recommends:

• Reduce Senior Civil Service (SCS) by 50%
• Cut Grade 6 and Grade 7 staff by 40%
• Cut SEO and HEO numbers by 20%
• Reduce other grades by 5%
• Target overall civil service reduction of 15%
• Reduce policy function staff by 50%.