Fat Government
The Civil Service is now the size of Sheffield.
Whitehall bureaucracy costs every household £850 a year.
The number of tax collectors has increased almost twice as fast as the
number of new doctors and nurses.
There are now more tax collectors and customs officers than people serving
in the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force put together.
One Department Work and Pensions employs more people than there are
soldiers in the British Army.
There are more DEFRA bureaucrats than there are dairy farms in England.
An extra 12,000 civil servants were employed last year.
The number of new bureaucrats and support staff in education has increased
twice as fast as the number of new teachers.
The number of NHS managers is increasing three times as fast as the number
of new doctors and nurses.
The James Review proposed that the Department of Health has wasted £7.9
billion. This money could have instead paid for 1.7 million hip replacement
operations.
For every extra police officer, almost one more bureaucrat has been employed
in the Home Office.
The running costs of the Government Offices for the Regions would pay for an
extra 5,000 nurses or teachers.
Council inspection costs could be reduced by £1 billon a year.
There are more external targets on schools than days in the school year.
12 pages of paperwork land on each head teachers desk each day of the
school year.
15 new regulations have been created every working day since 1997.
The Ministry of Defence bought new chairs for their civil servants at a cost
of £1,000 each.
For every job the private sector lost last year, the public sector took on
almost two jobs.
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