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In effect, the freeze represents a pay cut which, by targeting the richest public sector figures, will be seen as a sign that the broadest shoulders must carry the heaviest burden.
And Wales could be more vulnerable to spending cuts than other parts of the UK because of the high proportion of people employed in the public sector, figures suggest.
# Includes both "basic" and "postbasic" cadre types; @ public sector figures only.
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Yet, in our interviews with nurses and doctors, the actual working conditions in the public sector figured more prominently than the issue of salaries and benefit packages.
The public sector finance figures for April – the first month of the new fiscal year – are disappointing.
The latest public sector borrowing figures have revealed an unexpectedly large surplus for January 2011.
"But as today's public sector finance figures show the job is not yet done and government borrowing remains too high," she added.
But as today's public sector finance figures show the job is not yet done and Government borrowing remains too high" they said.
Sentiment was also helped by better than expected UK public sector deficit figures, although US markets slipped as the dollar surged on higher than expected inflation numbers, prompting new talk of interest rate rises.
The NHS is already undergoing arguably the greatest structural change of any public sector organisation: figures from the Royal College of Nursing show 56,000 posts have been lost across the UK since 2010.
Even the gloom-mongers of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Office for Budget Responsibility, who have every right to be gloomy, have not – yet – revised upwards their prediction of public sector staff figures falling to about 4.5m by the end of the next parliament.
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