[forlorn_mammoth]

> Productivity hasn't increased in the public sector since 1997

Hmm, in the US the size of the civil service was roughly constant over 20 years, while the population it served grew enormously as well as the amount of service it was supposed to provide.

[skippyboxedhero]

This isn't the US. Public sector productivity output (in the UK) is measured, it isn't a speculation based upon the population.