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Reuters: UK finance minister Hunt freezes civil service expansion

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British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Monday he would freeze the expansion of the country's civil service and intended to return it to its pre-pandemic size, a plan which he said would save up to 1 billion pounds ($1.21 billion) next year.

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