Reform UK civil service plan ‘would sack more planning officers than exist’

Danny Kruger, who produced Reform’s policy paper on the civil service, gives a speech in London in October last year. Photograph: Corey Rudy/Reuters

A Reform UK plan to cut the size of the civil service would involve sacking more planning officers than exist and getting rid of at least two-thirds of the psychologists who support prison officers’ welfare, it has emerged.

The policy paper, led by the Reform MP Danny Kruger and published in December, promises to save more than £5bn a year by cutting civil service roles, with the full-time-equivalent (FTE) headcount falling by 13%.