Brexit and covid-19 have produced a bigger civil service
It has also become more metropolitan
CIVIL SERVANTS have been ordered back to their desks as part of the government’s effort to show that post-pandemic life is returning to normal. But there is a problem: lack of space. The civil service is at its biggest in 12 years. Staff numbers at the Department for Health and Social Care nearly doubled in the year to September 2021, with 2,070 extra civil servants battling the pandemic.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “State of emergency”
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