I'm really surprised this hasn't hit the UK news, but the government department that regulates welfare (the DWP) just discovered a £350 Million deficit that is proactively not being acknowledged by the leadership team. Despite maybe 1000+ people losing their job. Granted, a lot of these job losses probably affect contractors and suppliers (IBM, Accenture, CapGemini) more than anyone. But the general perception is that the department is a sinking ship trying to shed weight as fast and as ruthlessly as possible. Many of these people were given only an hour or two notice.

They will no doubt get more money in April but many projects (100s) have been "paused" and I really doubt that the Subject Matter Experts will have the appetite to return to a department that screwed up their budget to such a huge degree.