It will be far easier for the diplomats to urge a further culls of the next tranche of "weaker" services now that the process has occurred once.
As it happens, the most recent splurge is well timed: the first tranche of a civil-service pay rise was handed out in October, just as worries about inflation gave way to fears about growth.
It has been named CloudStore rather than the Government Application Store, the name under which it was developed, and makes more than 1,700 services from 258 suppliers available through a catalogue for the first tranche of the G-Cloud service.
Mr Ford says the first tranche of 151 staff will leave the service under the voluntary early retirement scheme at the end of this month.
'We find it inexplicable that the government enters into agreements on improved pay and conditions of service, then sets up a tranche of schools that can opt out of those very agreements,' she said.
But, as the TUC's Cuts Watch initiative reveals, even the first and relatively small tranche of cuts announced two weeks ago are biting into core services and seem likely to affect the most vulnerable.
TransferWise, the fast-growing UK-based P2P money transfer startup that has reportedly been in talks with Facebook for remittance services, has raised a large tranche of funding led by one of the social network's earliest backers.
Yesterday 920 soldiers across the Army were told that they would be made redundant in the first tranche of plans to cut a fifth of the service.
Amin completed a new tranche of paperwork, much of it redundant, for a service center in Nebraska run by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Volunteers are sensitive to even the perception that their goodwill is being exploited as cover for public service cuts, and the next tranche of retirees are likely to be equally savvy about how they are treated.
