questionText: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason it is the Government's to lift the Civil Service headcount cap that had been announced by the previous administration; and if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of this policy.
answerText: This government moved away from capping civil service headcount to an approach that ensures departments consider overall value for money in resourcing decisions.To this end it has introduced of a 2% target for reduction to administration budgets in financ...
heading: Civil Servants