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<p>Work is ongoing following the Chancellor’s announcement in the Autumn statement
requiring Departments to cap Civil Service headcount and then reduce to 2019 levels.</p><p>
</p><p>By 2028, we need a refocused Civil Service workforce which will undertake prioritised
projects through agile, skilled, and right sized teams who are delivering ‘what really
matters’. We will create an environment where we are empowered, included, and recognised
for who we are and what we do.</p><p> </p><p>Defence Design is driving system change
to unlock a more effective and productive environment which in turn will enable this
change in the workforce.</p><p> </p><p>Our civil servants play an essential role in
delivering Defence outcomes and we hope that by utilising opportunities for process
redesign, digitisation, corporate service modernisation and prioritisation that we
can achieve better outcomes and accelerate the changes to our ways of working which
are required to achieve a smaller, more productive and more agile civilian workforce.</p><p>
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