PCS job cuts "senseless" says local AM

12.00.00am GMT Wed 7th Mar 2007

Local AM Michael German has branded government plans for civil service jobs as "senseless", as the Revenue and Customs Office in Pontypool, Newport and Merthyr faces job cuts.

Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Leader Michael German said: "The Government in Westminster and the Government in Cardiff Bay are not talking to each other, and people in Merthyr are suffering as a result.

"Gordon Brown's efficiency savings mean jobs will be lost in Pontypool, Newport and Merthyr just as Labour in Cardiff Bay is trying to move jobs out of Cardiff.

This will eventually impact on the general public. When tax codes are wrong, and when Welsh speakers can't get good service. This is a false economy which will hit Welsh public services and consequently, all of us who use these services."