A leaked Treasury briefing paper said that 1.2 million British jobs will be lost as a result of George Osborne’s budget cuts while another document has revealed the full list of 185 British foreign aid recipient countries, which include Cuba, North Korea, Hungary, India, Iran, Israel and Russia.The Treasury documents, prepared for Mr Osborne prior to his “austerity budget,” said that 1.2 million people will lose their jobs as a direct result on domestic spending cuts.
According to the briefing paper, 100-120,000 public sector jobs and 120-140,000 private sector jobs will be “assumed to be lost per annum for five years through cuts.”
These losses will not be limited to the public sector, as many private businesses depend on government contracts for their survival.
Government departments have been told to cut expenditure on outside contractors, a move which will exacerbate the situation further.
The Treasury document predicted that unemployment in the private sector caused by budget cuts will only be slightly less than unemployment in the public workforce.
Mr Osborne’s assertion that the number of jobs would increase has also been questioned. Experts such as John Philpott, the chief economist at the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development, have cast doubt on the private sector’s ability to generate new jobs in hard economic times.
“There is not a hope in hell’s chance of this [increase] happening: there would have to be extraordinarily strong private sector employment growth in a much less conducive economic environment than it was during the boom,” Mr Philpott was quoted as saying.
The job losses and cuts are in marked contrast to the ever increasing expenditure on foreign aid, which is set to rocket to £13 billion under ConDem plans.
The full list of 185 nations in receipt of British aid in one form or another has been released on the Department for International Development’s website.
The list contains many surprises as it includes nations which observers would have thought not in need of foreign aid at all.
The full list is as follows:
Afghanistan; Albania; Algeria; Angola; Anguilla; Antigua & Barbuda; Argentine Republic; Armenia; Azerbaijan; Bahamas; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Barbados; Belarus; Belize; Benin; Bermuda; Bhutan; Bolivia; Bosnia & Herzegovina; Botswana; Brazil; British Virgin Islands; Brunei; Bulgaria; Burkina Faso; Burma; Burundi; Cambodia; Cameroon; Cape Verde; Cayman Islands; Central African Republic; Chad; Chile; China; Colombia; Comoros; Congo (Dem Rep); Congo; Cook Islands; Costa Rica; Cote d'Ivoire; Croatia; Cuba; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Djibouti; Dominica; Dominican Republic; East Timor; Ecuador; Egypt; El Salvador; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Estonia; Ethiopia; Falkland Islands; Fiji; French Polynesia; Gabon; Gambia; Georgia; Ghana; Gibraltar; Grenada; Guatemala; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; Hong Kong; Hungary; India; Indonesia; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jamaica; Jordan; Kazakhstan; Kenya; Kiribati; Korea, Dem Rep (North); Kosovo; Kuwait; Kyrgyzstan; Laos; Latvia; Lebanon; Lesotho; Liberia; Libya; Lithuania; Macedonia (FYR of); Madagascar; Malawi; Malaysia; Maldives; Mali; Malta; Marshall Islands; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mayotte; Mexico; Micronesia, Fed States; Moldova; Mongolia; Montenegro; Montserrat; Morocco; Mozambique; Namibia; Nauru; Nepal; Netherlands Antilles; New Caledonia; Nicaragua; Niue; Niger; Nigeria; Oman; Pakistan; Palau; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Paraguay; Peru; Philippines; Pitcairn; Poland; Qatar; Romania; Russian Federation; Rwanda; Samoa (Western); Sao Tome & Principe; Saudi Arabia; Senegal; Serbia; Seychelles; Sierra Leone; Singapore; Slovak Republic; Slovenia; Solomon Islands; Somalia; South Africa; Sri Lanka; St Helena; St Kitts & Nevis; St Lucia; St Vincent & Grenadines; Sudan; Suriname; Swaziland; Syria; Tajikistan; Tanzania; Thailand; Togo; Tokelau; Tonga; Trinidad & Tobago; Tunisia; Turkey; Turkmenistan; Turks & Caicos Islands; Tuvalu; Uganda; Ukraine; United Arab Emirates; Uruguay; Uzbekistan; Vanuatu; Venezuela; Vietnam; Wallis and Futuna; West Bank & Gaza; Yemen; Zambia; and Zimbabwe.
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