{"id":411319,"date":"2026-02-06T15:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/411319\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:28:07","slug":"cash-stuffed-public-sector-productivity-stagnates-under-labour-guido-fawkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/411319\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash-Stuffed Public Sector Productivity Stagnates Under Labour \u2013 Guido Fawkes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/economy\/economicoutputandproductivity\/publicservicesproductivity\/bulletins\/publicserviceproductivityquarterlyuk\/julytoseptember2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New figures<\/a> out from the ONS show public sector productivity is flatlining under Labour after failing to recover from Covid:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur latest annualised estimates of total public service productivity in the UK show growth of 0.8% in 2023, revised down from 0.9%, and 0.0% in 2024, revised down from 0.3%.<br \/>\nTotal public service productivity was 3.4% lower in 2024 than the 2019 level (compared with 3.0% lower, as previously published).<br \/>\nHealthcare public service productivity was 7.9% lower in 2024 than the 2019 level (compared with 7.8% lower, as previously published).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The public sector is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/employmentandlabourmarket\/peopleinwork\/publicsectorpersonnel\/timeseries\/g6nq\/pse\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">now<\/a> as large as it has ever been. Labour continues stealing from the productive private sector to hand out cash to unproductive public sector workers. Death spiral\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New figures out from the ONS show public sector productivity is flatlining under Labour after failing to recover&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,14517,4875,734,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-411319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ons","tag-productivity","tag-public-sector","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}