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    • Sunday, 27 November, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      Labour to challenge ministers over Mone PPE contracts

      Opposition decries ‘total failure of due diligence’ of company from which Tory peer allegedly made substantial gains

    • Tuesday, 11 October, 2022
      Ferrovial SA
      Ferrovial sells UK support services business Amey in £400mn deal

      Buyout firms One Equity Partners and Buckthorn Partners to buy business that has been drag on Spanish owner

    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      KPMG UK
      KPMG accuses Carillion management of doctoring audit information

      Big Four firm denies it is responsible for £1.3bn of losses claimed by liquidators of collapsed outsourcer

    • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
      Carillion PLC
      Former Carillion executives fined over ‘misleadingly positive’ statements

      UK watchdog says three directors ‘acted recklessly’ in lead-up to outsourcing group’s collapse

    • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
      National Health Service
      Lancet study links NHS privatisation with decline in patient care

      Research suggests rise in outsourcing led to ‘higher rates of treatable mortality’ from 2013-20

    • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
      Serco Group PLC
      Immigration work helps Serco overcome end of UK Covid contracts

      Shares jump as revenues and profits upgraded above previous forecasts

    • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
      UK business & economy
      SFO outsources disclosure in G4S case after high-profile case failures

      Anti-graft agency appoints legal tech group Anexsys to help handle review of evidence to be shared with defence

    • Sunday, 24 April, 2022
      Accounting & Consulting services
      KPMG wins UK government contracts despite withdrawing from bidding after scandals

      Big Four consultancy secures £10mn of public sector work since saying it would stop pitching

    • Monday, 18 April, 2022
      News in-depth
      Construction and outsourcing groups still prone to audit failures

      Four years after Carillion’s collapse, many rivals have attracted attention of accounting regulator

    • Saturday, 2 April, 2022
      News in-depthRetail & Consumer industry
      Caterers cook up cloud kitchen strategy for post-pandemic offices

      Traditional groups offer modern menus and flexible canteens as they adapt to workplace change

    • Thursday, 24 February, 2022
      Serco Group PLC
      Serco profits buoyed by government Covid contracts

      Outsourcer increases dividend by 15% and launches £90mn share buyback

    • Thursday, 3 February, 2022
      KPMG UK
      KPMG sued for £1.3bn over Carillion audit

      Official receiver alleges that any competent auditor would have detected the misstatements at UK outsourcer

    • Monday, 10 January, 2022
      KPMG UK
      KPMG admits ‘misconduct’ as regulator alleges forgery by Carillion auditors

      FRC opens case against accounting firm that is expected to last five weeks

    • Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
      Healthcare
      Private hospitals benefit from furlough despite strong recovery

      Many healthcare providers have seen a boom in NHS work and self-paying patients

    • Monday, 15 November, 2021
      Serco Group PLC
      Covid contracts push Serco to upgrade full-year profit outlook

      Work housing asylum seekers also boosts revenues

    • Monday, 8 November, 2021
      National Health Service
      NHS sends X-rays abroad amid acute UK shortage of radiologists

      Health service is outsourcing analysis of scans as far afield as Australia as waiting lists lengthen

    • Monday, 1 November, 2021
      Grant Thornton UK LLP
      Grant Thornton fined over audit failings at outsourcer Interserve

      Sanction of £700,000 is second reprimand in six weeks for UK’s sixth-largest accounting firm

    • Sunday, 24 October, 2021
      Accounting & Consulting services
      UK public sector spending on consultants more than doubles

      Government and other bodies hand out Covid contracts worth £2.5bn in 2020-21

    • Thursday, 21 October, 2021
      G4S PLC
      SFO granted year-long postponement to G4S trial

      Three former executives accused of defrauding UK taxpayer on prisoner-tagging contract

    • Monday, 4 October, 2021
      Healthcare costs
      Private hospitals overtake NHS for hip and knee replacements

      More people are paying for the operations for the first time since they were widely introduced in the 1960s and ’70s

    • Monday, 9 August, 2021
      Kier Group PLC
      Kier boss admits HS2 rail contracts saved company from collapse

      Government supplier was ‘absolute mess’ but is rebuilding balance sheet, says Andrew Davies

    • Wednesday, 30 June, 2021
      Serco Group PLC
      Serco predicts first-half profits to climb 50%

      Outsourcer expects sales to rise by a fifth as it wins £322m contract to keep Covid testing centres running

    • Monday, 28 June, 2021
      Private equity
      Charme puts children’s home provider Witherslack up for sale

      Private equity owner attaches £600m price tag as deals rise in sector resilient to pandemic

    • Monday, 14 June, 2021
      LexSerco Group PLC
      Serco: UK test and trace scheme boosts outsourcer Premium content

      Public criticism has weighed on share price but not prevented group from lifting profits

    • Monday, 14 June, 2021
      Serco Group PLC
      Serco upgrades profit guidance as test-and-trace demand persists

      Outsourcer’s divisions in line or ahead of budget in first five months of the year

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