Extra 7000 MoD civvies to go before 2015.
Cut & paste fm Yahoo News:
A further 7,000 civilian jobs are to be cut from the Ministry of Defence, it has been reported.
The Guardian said that staff would be sent a letter, signed by the department's permanent secretary Ursula Brennan, explaining the move.
It follows the Strategic Defence and Security Review from last October, which outlined measures to slash thousands of personnel, scrap the Harrier fleet and Nimrod spy planes as well as retiring the HMS Ark Royal aircraft carrier.
Civilian personnel will be cut by 25,000 by 2015 under the MoD plans.
The newspaper carries extracts from the letter, which said: "In the SDSR we planned for ... a 25% reduction in the cost of civilian personnel by 2015, bringing the size of the MoD civil service down to a total of some 60,000 civilian posts.
"As part of the package announced last week we need to make further reductions in ... civilian manpower. For civilians, we will be extending the earlier planned reductions, coming down to a total of 53,000 civilians by 2020."
Media fill-in unrelated to story thus far as it concerns the Army not the civvies:
Defence Secretary Liam Fox said in a Commons statement on July 18 that he ultimately saw there being a total force of around 120,000 with a ratio of around 70% full-time regulars to 30% part-time Territorial Army members.
The current Army is more than 100,000 in size with around 14,000 reservists.
An MoD spokesperson said: "The Government has tackled the £38bn black hole in the MoD's finances, delivering substantial savings through difficult but necessary decisions.
"The aim of these cost savings is to ensure that the maximum funding is available for the front line.
"We hope to achieve these efficiencies through natural wastage wherever possible with compulsory redundancy programmes serving only as a last resort."
I suppose the admin jobs at MoD can be done by whats left of the Navigator cadre once Tornado gets the chop. For it appears to be widespread axe wielding without restructure in support and surely some of the jobs (positions) being lost are actually important ones.