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With public sector outsourcing contracts currently valued at around £100 billion a year, the Out of contract: Time to move on from the ‘love in’ with outsourcing and PFI report says taxpayers will have to pay a further £95 billion in charges connected with the deals and claims a full examination of outsourcing and PFI deals could lead to many contracts being abandoned and public delivery of public service being reinstated.
Paul Hackett, director of the Smith Institute, said: “We need a new approach based on public service values and community benefit, rather than private profiteering. This report starts to map out what form that new approach should take.”
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