Civil servants to strike in pay row

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Some of the walkouts will coincide with a stoppage by more than 600,000 council workers in a separate pay row, which will hit local authority services across England, Wales and Northern Ireland on Wednesday and Thursday.

The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) announced that driving test examiners will strike on Wednesday, while staff at the Valuation Office Agency will take industrial action on Wednesday and Thursday.

Home Office and Land Registry workers will strike for part of Friday, coastguards will launch a 48-hour stoppage on Friday while employees at the Identity and Passport Service will strike for 72 hours from July 23.

PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: "This will prove to be a determined week of solidarity among public sector workers facing a brutal attack on their living standards from a Government desperate to cling to a widely discredited pay policy.

"With food and energy prices rising even faster than inflation, millions of workers are struggling more than ever to pay their bills.

"The Government has lost all credibility in its attempts to portray low-paid public servants as the causes of inflation, rather than its victims.

"We will continue to press for serious negotiations with ministers but we are prepared and determined to fight alongside our public sector colleagues if that is what is required."

The PCS strikes will affect the whole of Britain.