Leaked figures suggest 610,000

MPS have warned figures that suggest the UK could lose 610,000 Government jobs will send a chill across Scotland.

One-in-four Scottish jobs is currently in the public sector and Opposition politicians at Westminster seized on leaked Treasury figures that supposedly showed up to 1.3 million posts will be lost nationwide over the next six years as the UK Government's austerity programme bites.

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Harriet Harman, the acting Labour leader, warned of "abject misery" in the jobs market as she took David Cameron to task over the "secret Treasury analysis".

However, the Prime Minister hit back, insisting Harman's attack was a "spectacular own goal" as - unbeknown to many - minutes before Commons question-time the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the new independent forecaster, published fresh job figures.

These showed, overall, that employment is set to increase by 1.34 million by 2015/16, meaning some two million private sector jobs will be created over this period.

The OBR's figures show the Lib-Con's two-year public-sector pay freeze slows the fall in Government jobs up to 2012/13 compared to Labour's plans but, in the following three years, increases it substantially and results in 30,000 more job losses Bertolucci under the coalition than under Labour by 2015/16.

In angry exchanges, Harman declared: "We know that, because this Budget hits jobs, the Treasury will get less money coming in and more money going out. Doesn't that make reducing the deficit even harder and more painful with bigger tax rises or even deeper cuts in public services?"

However, the PM urged her to look at the OBR figures before asking questions as they showed employment rising by 1.34 million to 2015/16.

He added: "As the last Government accepted, there will be reductions in public-sector employment, but according to the OBR, which is independent, the growth in the private sector more than makes up for that."

Labour's Michael Connarty, who represents Linlithgow and East Falkirk, spoke of an absolute chill running through Scotland at the prospect Fendi of massive public-sector job cuts.

Later, Stewart Hosie for the SNP referred to how the figures were a warning of the impact that making cuts too far and too fast will have on the economy.

Anas Sarwar, the Labour MP for Glasgow Central, added that they proved "the Tory Government still believes unemployment is a price worth paying".

The forecast cuts of 610,000 represent around 11% of the total UK public-sector workforce and will reduce it to around five million; cancelling out all the Government jobs created by Labour and bringing the number back to the level of when Tony Blair came to power in 1997.

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