Money spent on care provided by private sector actually fell 4.5% last year

Bailouts of £500m to private sector, with some offenders only monitored electronically

Serco is challenging the decision to award the contract to rival Capita

Chancellor Philip Hammond says proceeds will help reduce national debt

Need to raise funds outweighs concern over market volatility

Transport secretary Chris Grayling turns to public ownership to keep service on track

Watchdog says patients put ‘at risk of serious harm’ by contractor’s failures

Company’s rise and ‘spectacular fall’ was a story of ‘recklessness, hubris and greed’

UK says DoJ settlement opens route to ‘sale of taxpayer-owned shares’ in bailed out bank

Labour’s plan for renationalisation is popular but how costly — and effective — would it be?

Competition helps improve jail standards but early advantages start to fade

Companies must not profiteer, but privatisation depends on reasonable margins

The contracts that were meant to build schools and hospitals on a budget

Spending watchdog says defence ministry overcautious in dealings with Guy Hands

Privatisation was meant to deliver competition, innovation and improved service, but has it delivered?

Once a leader in selling off utilities, many in UK now think investors have run rings around regulators