A Southend MP has tackled Chancellor Gordon Brown over the impact public service cuts will have on south Essex.
Jobs at Southend's Customs and Excise remain under threat after the announcement that 20,000 civil service job losses would be made in London and the South East.
Rochford and Southend East MP Sir Teddy Taylor hopes Chancellor Gordon Brown will treat the town as a special case and save it from any job losses, including any from Alexander House, Victoria Avenue.
Sir Teddy quizzed Mr Brown on the proposals in the Commons when the announcement was made.
He asked: "While it would be wrong for any true Conservative not to applaud the Chancellor for his target of reducing the civil service by 84,000 jobs, is he confident that it can be done, bearing it in mind that, according to the figures that I have, the number of civil servants has been increasing by more than 500 every week over the past two years?"
Published Friday July 16, 2004
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