Technology secretary Peter Kyle has addressed recent speculation that thousands of civil service jobs are set to be cut. Sir Keir Starmer is set to deliver a speech on Thursday setting out an overhaul of the British state. "A smaller, smarter state does mean adapting government and it will mean lowering the head count in some areas but it will also mean bringing in new digital skills as well," Mr Kyle said.
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00:00This is about the Prime Minister and his government leading its government through change, his way.
00:05We are disrupting, but we're disrupting in the Keir Starmer way.
00:08This is about having very, very ambitious goals to deliver better services for people,
00:13having services that wrap around the needs of individual people
00:16in their interactions with public services and the government,
00:19but doing so in a much more efficient and effective way.
00:22That does involve a smaller, smarter state.
00:25That's what we'll deliver, but we'll deliver it by taking people with us.
00:28A smaller, smarter state does mean adapting government,
00:31and it will mean lowering the headcount in some areas,
00:34but it will also mean bringing in new digital skills as well.
00:37So we set an apprenticeship scheme up so that people who are already in the civil service
00:41can transition to the digital skills that we'll need into the future,
00:44and other people can come into the civil service on this apprenticeship route
00:48so that we can get the skills in every department that we need.