Taxpayers Foot £132 Million Bill For Civil Servants With No Job To Do

The figures have emerged at the start of a year in which economists suggest one million private sector jobs could be lost.
Using a series of Parliamentary Questions, the Conservatives uncovered what they say is an "invisible army of Whitehall civil servants".
In total, 15 departments said they employed 4,634 staff - one in 100 of all civil servants - without an official job.
Calculated on the average staff cost of a civil servant, the staff would cost £132million to employ.
More than half of the staff were at HM Revenue & Customs which is employing 2,874 "pre-surplus staff". This is defined as staff "whose post or work is no longer being carried out".
The answers from other departments show that staff with nothing to do are described as members of "People Action Teams", "Redeployment Pool", "Priority Movers", "Corporate Pool" or "Career Transition Centre"

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