Civil service numbers increase
The number of national government civil servants has risen by 3,000 over the past year, despite pledges to cut the number of bureaucrats, according to home affairs ministry figures.
In particular, the number of civil servants attached to the security services, tax department and prison service was up, because of cabinet policy decisions.
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