Brown breaks vow to cut civil service. From: The Daily Mail (London, England) | Date: October 3, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2005 Solo Syndication Limited. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: JAMES CHAPMAN

GORDON Brown was accused yesterday of failing to tackle Britain's bloated bureaucracy after it emerged that not a single job has been cut from Whitehall in the last year.

Figures released by the Office for National Statistics show that the number of employees in the civil service is equal to that of a year earlier, at 570,000.

The overall number of public sector jobs actually rose by 95,000 in the 12 months leading up to June - to 5.85million - meaning the state now employs nearly one in four workers.

This means it has been taking on staff ...

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