Government Departments: Foreign Workers

Cabinet Office written question – answered at on 5 December 2013.

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Photo of Paul Blomfield Paul Blomfield Labour, Sheffield Central

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimate he has made of the number of jobs to be moved offshore under the contract with Shared Services Connected Limited to provide shared services for the Department for Work and Pensions and other government bodies.

Photo of Francis Maude Francis Maude The Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office

The Government is determined to drive savings for the taxpayer. The strategy to transform back office operations and consolidate transactional functions across Government could help deliver between £400 million and £600 million a year in savings for the taxpayer by 2014-15. To ensure that Shared Services Connected Ltd can be a fully competitive and viable business, and grows as a powerful new company, they will be able to perform some functions overseas. The same model was adopted by a previous Government with the NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) service in 2005. SSCL has not predetermined their future delivery model.

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