Since Labour took office, the number of people working in the public sector has grown by 600,000. Figures released a few days ago by the Office for National Statistics showed that while people are losing their jobs in the private sector, public sector employment increased by 13,000 in the second quarter of 2008 to 5.771 million. In 1997, the number was 5.173 million. Philip Johnston- Telegraph Goo...

The Cabinet office weighs in as one of the cheapest departments. Its total spend for 2009-10 is an apparently modest £7,500,000,000. £361,000,000 of this is the administrative cost of the place, whilst the bulk, £7,140,000,000, is the civil service pensions bill.

A FORMER Liberal Democrat MP now working for the Scotland Office has agreed to pay back more than £2,000 in expenses wrongly claimed on his local office.

OGCbuying.solutions is taking part in an eAuction by reverse auctioning a requirement for 5,000 laptops and 5,000 desktop PCs. The eAuction which is facilitated by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) will take place on 24 July 2008 and is part of a programme of eAuctions being held on behalf of the public sector.

Damian Green was arrested and bailed by the Police for "Misconduct in public office". The most egregious example of "Misconduct in public office" in recent years was the preparation of the "Dirty Dossier" on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. This compilation of lies was used to launch a disastrous war of aggression that cost hundreds of thousands of lives. Let us test the alleged automaticity of ...

DRUG DEATHS Tobacco 114,000 Alcohol 5,000 to 40,000 Heroin, morphine, methadone 944 Cocaine 147 Ecstasy 48 Aphetamines 83 Solvents 45 Cannabis 16 Source: Office for National Statistics, Department of Health and Ash. Figures refer to 2004, where substance is mentioned on the death certificate, except alcohol and tobacco which are annual estimates. DRUG ADDICTS 280,000-500,000 Source: Home Office re...

In the debate on thursday on Public Spending Labour pressed home an attack on the question of how many people will lose their jobs in the public sector as a result of the cuts   Everyone seemed to accept the Office of Budget Responsibility’s figures that over the next four years there will be 490,000 fewer

National debt will soon be 147% of national income £33,000 for every man, woman and child in the country. The worst figure since 1954 One of the highest in the developed world. £67.2billion borrowed between last April and January. City experts said bringing the public finances back into order would mean cutting public spending by at least £60billion

Britain's leading liberal newspaper reports on a "poignant exhibition" at the Remember Who Won museum in London. The exhibition commemorates "the impact of the war on the Post Office, when 75,000 young postmen, sorting office staff and clerks volunteered to join up: 15,000 never came home", perhaps because the Post Office had not yet been privatised; although on the bright side "the cost of the

Right, let’s have a quick look at whether we are getting good value for money or not from this total fucktard. £40,000 claimed for office expenses. He has no office £54,000 claimed for “secretarial services” from his fucking wife £61,000 Salary Lives 200 miles away from his constituents. All 7 million of them (10 countries in the EU have less population) He has ...