The United Kingdom’s Finance Minister, Rachel Reeves, has announced plans to reduce Civil Service running costs by 15% over the next four years, a move expected to save £2.2 billion annually.
The initiative aims to streamline administrative and bureaucratic functions that expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking on the proposed reforms, Reeves emphasized the government’s commitment to redirecting resources toward priority areas such as capital spending and the National Health Service (NHS).
“Last year, I put £100 billion more into capital spending than the previous government had committed to, and we allocated more than £20 billion to the NHS,” she told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
She added that the government’s actions were a “far cry” from those of their Conservative predecessors.
The plan could result in a reduction of approximately 10,000 Civil Service jobs, though Reeves clarified that individual departments would determine the…