Spend targets 'will mean job cuts in public sector'
JOB LOSSES in the public sector are inevitable if the States is to meet tough new spending targets laid down by the senior States committee, a senior deputy has warned.
Peter Ferbrache, president of the Committee for Economic Development, told yesterday's Chamber of Commerce lunch that spending cuts of 3% next year, followed by 5% over the next two years, should lead to smaller, more efficient government.
'There is a lot in favour of it, but it will also mean people being made redundant,' he said.
'We cannot cut £15-20m. off our expenditure without making some people redundant.'
Deputy Ferbrache said that the previous States had spent much time developing strategies and policies 'but they didn't have a clue how those policies were going to be populated and paid for'.
