According to an analysis of the Labour Force Survey by David Smith, Chief Economist at Williams de Broe, almost half of all jobs created in the UK since 1997 have been in the public sector. A total of 861,231 jobs were created between 1997 and 2004. This takes the public sectors share of the UK workforce to 24.2%. The survey shows that most of the new workers in this sector are not doctors, nurses, teachers or police, but administrative staff or regulators.
Our view:
Why do we need another c 400,000 public workers? More Government waste equals higher wages equals more tax to pay! We have seen little improvement in public sector services (and no we are not knocking those at the lower end that are doing the real work). There just seems to be even more red tape, more chiefs and less "at the sharp end" delivery.