Bonfire of red tape ends in 14 job cuts

So we want to save you money, let's have a look:

"Cutting the cost of bureaucracy has been at the top of the political agenda for the past year, since Chancellor Gordon Brown announced plans to axe up to 40,000 government posts across the UK in order to save £20bn by 2008.

Radical scottish plans to slash £1bn of waste from the public sector were last night in doubt after officials admitted that the Executive did not have a job-cutting agenda, despite a pledge to spend less on bureaucrats and more on frontline services such as hospitals and schools - and a massive purge of Scotland’s cumbersome civil service promised last year by ministers has produced only 14 job cuts in the Executive."

Oh well - I suppose they will say they tried!

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