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  Courtesy The Times..............
  
  £800m cost of replacing sacked staff at Whitehall
  
  Ministers spent up to £800 million parachuting in consultants and temporary staff last year,
  
  despite giving big payoffs to tens of thousands of civil servants. Departments are laying off
  
  workers but taking on expensive consultants — often earning more than £1,000 a day —
  
  to do the same jobs in a "revolving door" at the heart of the Civil Service. Francis Maude,
  
  the Cabinet Office Minister, announced a ban on the use of management consultants three
  
  years ago as part of the Government's efficiency reforms. Yet the big four consultants —
  
  KPMG, PwC, Deloitte and Ernst & Young — are now being wooed back by the Government
  
  to complete difficult projects before the election. "They are determined to get everything done by 2015

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