The figure was for output-per-person in the public sector, which is what we economists call productivity. If you allow for the fact that pre-Covid public sector productivity was actually rising, the latest figure is 8.6 percent lower than it would have been had the modest growth in public service productivity post-2010 continued. As mentioned above, public sector productivity is hard to measure. Jeremy Hunt is the UK's chancellor of the exchequerMaking people working in public sector more productive is harder than in the private sector. And in any case, the private sector itself isn’t doing that well, although nowhere near as badly as the public sector.
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