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PAC warns of Work Programme risksThe 'quick' introduction of the Work Programme has created a new set of risks that must be addressed, the Public Accounts Committee has warned. 16 May 2012
UK will stay in recession for another quarter, says CBIThe UK economy will not emerge from recession and start growing again until the second half of this year, the CBI predicted today 03 May 2012
PAC slams 'excessively high' PFI returnsThe Public Accounts Committee today called for an end to the routine use of the Private Finance Initiative to pay for public infrastructure, saying some of the private sector profits were 'difficult to justify'. 02 May 2012
Ministers spin off civil service pension scheme as mutualThe government has relaunched the civil service pension scheme as a mutual joint venture, partly owned by staff and government and partly by a private firm. 30 April 2012

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Open for business?Can the government's Open Public Services agenda succeed in a period of local authority budget cuts? Public Finance and Zurich Municipal hosted a round table to debate the possibilities 01 December 2011
Clean bill of health?The revised Health & Social Care Bill has made it through its third Commons reading. But many issues remain unresolved - not least the role of competition and price regulation in the NHS 01 October 2011
Payback time for the PFI?For two decades the Private Finance Initiative has been the only game in town for financing public infrastructure. Now pressure is mounting for the private firms that have done so well out of it to put something back into the public coffers. Mark Hellowell reports 01 April 2011

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Emergency exit
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All in this together
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