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Newsletter: January 2018

January 31, 2018

The January 2018 newsletter of Corporate Welfare Watch

Our newsletter for January 2018 introduced the launch of our newly updated and improved Corporate Welfare Database, featured our blog on the East Coast Rail Bailout (which was featured in a Guardian report) and included news about the Carillion collapse and PFI contracts.

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Tackling the negative effects of PFI: Conflicting reports on policy advice

November 15, 2018

The Centre for Health and the Public Interest (CHPI) has recently published a report on private finance initiatives (PFI).  The report, intended for policy-makers, outlines five options for coping with PFI and its lasting effects, […]

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Private finance initiative for elderly care in Northamtonshire: A good example of a bad PFI contract.

October 25, 2018

A recent BBC article has shed light on yet another failed PFI contract – this time, involving elderly care in Northamtonshire. Looking at the results of Northamptonshire’s Stabilisation Plan, the BBC report discussed how the 25-year contract […]

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Nearly a year on, the UK is still experiencing repercussions from Carillion’s collapse.

October 23, 2018

The rise of Carillion alongside the UK government’s promotion of private finance initiatives from the early 2000’s may have largely been heralded as a success until Carillion’s unprecedented demise early on this year. As Rebecca […]

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Research Report: The British Corporate Welfare State: Public Policies for Private Businesses

May 1, 2018

It is widely assumed that public services are organized and delivered for the sole benefit of citizens. The reality, however, is very different. The more we consider the role and function of different government departments […]

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The newsletter of Corporate Welfare Watch for April 2018.
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Newsletter: April 2018

April 25, 2018

Our newsletter for April 2018 focused on the taxpayer-funded Persimmon executive payout, the massive $8.5bn incentives package the state of Maryland has offered Amazon for HQ2 in the US, job cuts in the UK auto […]

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The newsletter of Corporate Welfare Watch for March 2018
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Newsletter: March 2018

March 29, 2018

Our newsletter for March 2018 is focused on government funding for the Industrial Strategy, new plans for taxing turnover of large online firms in the UK and EU, and recent events that featured Kevin Farnsworth of […]

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