In 'The Gazette' Thursday 17th December, an MoD spokesman confirmed that the number of civilian personnel would be reducing in the Fylde.
Interestingly there was no official denial that more than 400 SPVA jobs could be under threat following Defence Secretary's Bob Ainsworth's announcement of a further 10,000 job cuts in the civilian workforce. The MoD say that, "There are no plans for any compulsory redundancies", but as we know, that is a meaningless statement especially given the recent attack on the Principal Civil Service Compensation Scheme, that has been engineered precisely in order to reduce the cost of making redundancies.
The Branch will actively campaign against any arbitrary staffing cuts.
