Serious crime committed by offenders on parole increased by 50 per cent following the Government’s reforms to the probation service. The official data for England and Wales refers to Further Serious Offence reviews (SFOs). An […]
FirstGroup made a £40m dividend from Great Western Railway (GWR) last year, despite previously exiting its GWR contract to avoid paying £800m to the government. FirstGroup has run GWR since it was privatised in 2006. […]
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 […]
Highlighting findings from the Royal College of Radiologists, ‘Clinical Radiology UK Workforce Census 2017 Report’, a recent BMJ news article calls attention to the rising expenditure by the NHS on outsourced radiology patient scans. With […]
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 […]
Many issues cross the political divide, the issue of outsourcing and privatization certainly being one of them. With growing criticism of private finance initiatives after events like the collapse of Carillion earlier this year, it […]
The government has announced that another of its flagship policies on outsourcing have come unstuck. Privatising the probation service always looked like a privatisation too far. And now even the Conservative Government agrees. This is […]
The Guardian reports that UK taxpayers will be forced to give £200bn to contractors over 25 years because of private finance initiative (PFI) deals. According to a report by the National Audit Office (NAO), PFI […]
In a searing piece for The Guardian, Patrick Collinson reports on the extreme manner in which the rising cost of necessary utilities has far outstripped increases in averages wages over the last decade. Collinson references a […]
Privatisation bonanza for private companies.. 28/01/16 18:40 piece in the Guardian today about cut-price privatisations which brought large cash benefits to a number of private sector companies. This is an extract: The government has been accused […]
Capita profits surge bolstered by UK government outsourcing Capita profits surge bolstered by UK government outsourcing Gill Plimmer writes that: Capita reported a 16 per cent surge in interim pre-tax profits to £238m bolstered by a […]
Research undertaken by CRESC, Manchester, estimate that the private train companies are taking out £2.47 for every pound they put in. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/04/rail-privatisation-train-operators-profit
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