Public Sector Productivity Drops 0.3% Despite Labour Pay Rises

Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics brings more bad news for Labour. Total public sector productivity dropped last year by 0.3%, following a 0.2% fall in 2023. That’s 4.6% below pre-pandemic levels…

This is despite Reeves handing the public sector a whopping £10 billion in pay rises, with wage increases of between 4.75% and 6% last July.[…] Read the rest