The government is paying an inordinately wasteful amount of money in both redundancy packages and agency fees to fill vacant civil service positions.

Civil servants received almost £90m in redundancy payments last quarter. Concurrently, the government spent £30m on employment agency fees. Jon Trickett, Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office accused the government of being in a “headlong rush” to casualise the service, without paying heed to whether positions would need to be refilled or not.