The 34 companies the government pays more than £100m a year to for services are likely to benefit from rises in public spending, according to a data firm.
A government initiative to build 200,000 homes for first time buyers has failed to produce a single home since it was announced in 2015, the National Audit Office has found.
A new body to regulate outsourcing deals of public services is much needed to ramp up quality of provision and keep costs under control, says Joshua Pritchard, senior researcher at Reform
Inherent problems with the housing planning system in England mean the government is “way off track” for reaching its goal of 300,000 new homes each year, MPs have claimed.
Delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan is threatened by a “worrying level of disparity” in the financial performance of local health bodies, MPs have warned.