Fascinating article in The Sunday Times today.
The article claims that laying off public-sector staff cost at least £1bn last year.
Two examples:
In the last two years 37 HMRC officials have left with packages worth more than £200,000.
At the Land Registry, English and Welsh equivalent of the Registers of Scotland, more that 200 officials received packages worth over £100,000. 68 of these were worth over £200,000.
The £447,382 pay out for Bernadette Kenny, the HMRC official in charge of personal taxes when HMRC miscalculated the tax due by 6 million people, will I am sure receive a lot of publicity in the next few days.