The Treasury has announced a package of cuts amounting to £6.2 billion worth of savings from the public sector budget.
Included in these measures is a £95 million saving to be made through a reduction in IT spending, £120 million saving to be made through a civil service recruitment freeze and £1.2 billion from local government.
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The latest figures for Technology recruitment in the public sector in 2010, predict a sharp decline across both central and local government as budgets are squeezed even tighter.
According to the Society of Information Technology Management (Socitm) annual report on IT spending, local authority expenditure on IT staff will decrease by 10 percent in 2010, with [...]