Shadow Home Office minister Matt Vickers says the Conservatives want to reduce the numbers of civil servants at Whitehall and calls the government’s plan to reform public services “a gimmick”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00We don't really take lessons from the Labour frontbench on businesses.
00:02They're not a group of people with much business acumen.
00:05In fact, not much business experience between them.
00:07The Conservative government would have been reducing the headcount in the civil service now
00:12and pushing that money back into the front line services.
00:15I'm not sure it's just a gimmick.
00:17Do you know what we always want to see?
00:19The civil service being more efficient, more punchy and more productive.
00:22We'd also like to see a few less of them
00:24so that the entire machinery government is that bit more efficient.
00:28Labour seem like they want to make it bigger and fatter and come up with more gimmicks for it.
00:32We want to make it more efficient and lean
00:34so that public money goes back into front line services.