Public Services Archive

A shareholder activist’s account of the G4S AGM

[responsivevoice_button] The G4S AGM, on 5 June 2014, passed with predictable

Capita Company Profile

As more public services are privatised, a growing list of contracts

Firms running NHS care services avoiding millions in tax

  Companies receiving lucrative government contracts to run care services looking

HMRC ‘particularly feeble’ over failure to close loophole

[responsivevoice_button] The Government chose not to close a tax loophole which

The other energy scandal – power giants use loophole to cut their own tax bills

[responsivevoice_button] As people buckle under the pressure of soaring energy bills,

Serco and pathology: the cost of profit

[responsivevoice_button] Serco was pleased to announce this month that GSTS Pathology

The Severn Trent takeover – corporate profiteering, tax avoidance and Britain’s water supply

[responsivevoice_button] Severn Trent is the latest water company to be targeted

‘A ridiculous return’: South West Water and the cost of water

[responsivevoice_button] Devon resident Stan Beale considers the excessive prices charged by

Unhealthy influence: The rise of the NHS Partners Network

[responsivevoice_button] The transformation of a small private healthcare trade association into

One in ten claimants have benefits cut on mandatory workfare scheme

[responsivevoice_button] CORRECTION 16 March 2013: This article was first published under

Leaking away: The financial costs of water privatisation

[responsivevoice_button] As water bills rise again, an investigation by Corporate Watch

Capita gets bigger slice of UK immigration cake, chokes on first bites

[responsivevoice_button] Thousands of migrants received threatening text messages over the Christmas

The Workfare Before Christmas

[responsivevoice_button] As the legality of the government’s ‘workfare’ schemes is again

November 6, 2012 : Britain’s biggest care home owners have debts of more than £4.5bn

 [responsivevoice_button] Britain’s biggest private care home owners have combined debts of

Transforming Pathology, the Serco way

[responsivevoice_button] The privatisation of pathology services in two London hospitals has