376,000 Public Sector Jobs Lost
Wednesday 14th December 2011
376,000 PUBLIC SECTOR JOBS LOST ACROSS UK SINCE 2010
GENERAL ELECTION SHOWN IN GMB ANALYSIS OF EMPLOYMENT FIGURES
PUBLISHED TODAY
Same old Tories returned to power and
with them the philosophy of “if it’s not hurting it’s not working”
says GMB
A total of 376,000 jobs have been lost across
the UK in the public sector since the election. This is revealed in
a new analysis by GMB of change in employment in the public sector
between Q1 2010 – before election- and latest figures for Q3 2011
published this morning. See notes to Editors for
sources.
South West Region, where 54,000 public sector
jobs have been lost, is the highest number for any region in the
UK. Next was North West with 44,000 public sector jobs lost. 41,000
public sector jobs have been lost in both South East and East of
England Regions. Job losses in Scotland’s public sector are 36,000.
The figure for West Midlands is 30,000 public sector job losses.
The figures are 26,000 public sector job losses for Yorkshire and
the Humber, 23,000 public sector job losses in North East and
20,000 public sector job losses in East Midlands. 14,000 public
sector jobs have been lost in Wales and 11,000 in Northern Ireland.
The full details for 3rd Quarter 2011 public sector
employment compared with Q1 2010 are set out in the table below for
each region:
JOB LOSSES IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR BY
REGION SINCE 2010 GENERAL ELECTION
| |
Headcount (not seasonally adjusted
|
|
| |
Q1 2010
|
Q3 2011
|
change
|
% change
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
South West
|
549,000
|
495,000
|
-54,000
|
-9.8
|
|
|
North West
|
724,000
|
680,000
|
-44,000
|
-6.1
|
|
|
London
|
831,000
|
790,000
|
-41,000
|
-4.9
|
|
|
South East
|
719,000
|
678,000
|
-41,000
|
-5.7
|
|
|
Eastern
|
475,000
|
444,000
|
-31,000
|
-6.5
|
|
|
West Midlands
|
526,000
|
496,000
|
-30,000
|
-5.7
|
|
|
Yorkshire and the Humber
|
562,000
|
536,000
|
-26,000
|
-4.6
|
|
|
North East
|
297,000
|
274,000
|
-23,000
|
-7.7
|
|
|
East Midlands
|
402,000
|
382,000
|
-20,000
|
-5.0
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Wales
|
347,000
|
333,000
|
-14,000
|
-4.0
|
|
|
Scotland
|
625,000
|
589,000
|
-36,000
|
-5.8
|
|
|
Northern Ireland
|
229,000
|
218,000
|
-11,000
|
-4.8
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
England
|
5,084,000
|
4,775,000
|
-309,000
|
-6.1
|
|
|
Great Britain
|
6,057,000
|
5,697,000
|
-360,000
|
-5.9
|
|
|
United Kingdom
|
6,333,000
|
5,957,000
|
-376,000
|
-5.9
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
.
.
Paul Kenny, GMB General Secretary,
said “I doubt if the electorate had any
notion that a change of government would lead to a loss of 376,000
jobs across the UK in the public sector in such a short time?
Same old Tories returned to power and with them the philosophy of
“if it’s not hurting it’s not working.”
Commenting on the new unemployment
figures also published today (Wednesday 14 December Paul Kenny
added “A double dip Osborne recession, rising unemployment, rapidly
falling living standards are the Tory/Lib Dem miserable Christmas
gifts to the nation. The millions of workers without jobs face a
miserable Christmas and a bleak New Year.
Instead of attacking pensions and
employment rights and making it easier to sack people the
Government should be pursuing policies to create jobs which is
something it is failing miserably to do. Where are all the jobs
that it promised -to make up for the 710,000 jobs cut in the public
sector as an act of deliberate policy? As we can now see more
than half of these, 376,000, have already gone.
This Government upon election made
cuts which shattered confidence and stalled the then
internationally shared priorities for recovery from the banker’s
recession. It bears a heavy responsibility for the shifting
of international priorities away from growth and to more
economic pain.”
End
Contact: Brian Strutton 07860
606 137 or GMB Press office 07974 251 823 or 07921 289 880
Notes:
1. Source: Office for National Statistics
Public Sector Employment www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_247739.pdf
which was released 14 December 2011
2. Regional public sector employment
figures are headcount figures and not seasonally adjusted
3. Estimates are based on where people are
employed