Public services and the private sector

Allyson Pollock, Jean Shaoul, David Rowland and Stewart Player

Public services and the private sector, a response to the IPPR

Revised with a new foreword by David Hinchliffe MP

A Catalyst working paper
November 2001

Contents

Executive summary

1. Introduction
2. Financing public services
3. Public vs private: the evidence
4. When contracts fail
5. Undermining universal provision: PFI in the NHS
6. Conclusion

Appendix: The IPPR Commission