New cuts to be initiated by George Osborne are likely to result in the cutting of over 13,000 jobs within the civil service.

The predictions come on top of 63,000 positions cut from 2010 in order to reduce cost and safeguard funding for frontline services and economic stimulation projects.

The independent Office for Budget Responsibility has predicted that the loss of 730,000 public sector jobs by 2017 will be outweighed by the creation of £1.3 million job in the private sector.