The incentive is to grow it, particularly for those in control, and with career civil servants ever fighting any form of downsizing, it seems theanswer for true government shrinkage is not surgical strikes, but across the board cuts massive in nature.
And Margaret Hodge, a Labour ex-minister, who now chairs the powerful Public Accounts Committee, has sent shudders through Whitehall, by insisting that civil servants must answer to Parliament for waste and inefficiency in government.