Whitehall lay-offs 'cost Â£430m'
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Ministers have spent more than Â£430m on making staff redundant in an efficiency drive, the Lib Dems say.
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Phew! What a stink The British government has admitted to Parliament that its IT projects have over-run by more than Â£260m in the last five years.â¦
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Public money is being wasted by the government employing too many press officers, the Conservatives say.
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Business & money: Â· Buyout firms blamed for collapse of schemesÂ· Labour donor linked to Â£81m of deficits
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'Significantly exceeds previously estimated workforce-reduction target'
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LONDON - The British Broadcasting Corp. will cut nearly 3,000 jobs in a drive to reduce costs, the company reported Tuesday. Most of the cuts will be in administrative departments, and some operations will
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Electronic Data Systems has admitted that an error by one of its computer operators during a Microsoft Windows upgrade caused 40,000 PCs at the United Kingdom&#39;s Department of Work and Pensions to crash last month.
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Government agrees to offer rescue package to up to 130,000 workers whose pension schemes went bust
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The soaring cost of private finance schemes will become an "albatross" around the NHS's neck, a study says.
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UK - The NHS is facing a &quot;fragile future&quot; as the number of nurses choosing to leave the profession and the cost of employing agency staff increases, a new report warns.
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A new hi-tech communications centre for Lothian and Borders Police is suffering from a Â£1.2m overspend.
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Tens of millions of pounds have been overpaid through benefit errors or fraud, according to a new report.
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The British government has admitted its ambitous database project could cost millions to maintain.
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A scheme to assist workers who have lost their pensions cost twice as much to run as it has paid out, an MP claims.
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The collapse of carmaker MG Rover could cost Britain's private sector and former workers more than 600 million pounds (879 million euros, 1.1 billion dollars), an official report suggested.
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The government spent 1.75 billion pounds last year to hire outside consultants, some of who were paid roughly 10 times that of a civil servant doing same job.
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The NHS in England is to spend Â£172m on management consultants this year, the Tories have claimed.