The latest employment projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility show that the public sector workforce is on course to fall to a record low.

The number of people employed in central and local government will have fallen by around 700,000 during the course of the current Parliament (2010-2015) and by 880,000 by the time the Chancellor hopes to have closed the structural fiscal deficit in 2017. This will wipe out the net rise in public sector employment under the Labour government between 1999 and 2009 and take the public sector workforce to a record low.

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