Quote Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has asked the Serious Fraud Office to investigate G4S for overcharging for tagging criminals in England and Wales. MPs heard that the overcharging by G4S and rival Serco ran to tens of millions of pounds. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23272708 '" You couldn't make it up.

Quote Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has asked the Serious Fraud Office to investigate G4S for overcharging for tagging criminals in England and Wales. MPs heard that the overcharging by G4S and rival Serco ran to tens of millions of pounds. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23272708 '" You couldn't make it up.

Sounds like that's exactly what they did.

It's a joke the way government / public bodies give money away to private companies via stupid contracts. It's the same at all levels - even local car parking - because its not their money public "servants" easily get hoodwinked into paying over the odds (and that's when they are not on the take).

You can't beat the civil service for incompetence as well.....

Isn't it about time that government stripped G4s of all government contracts? They used to lose prisoners, there was the Olympics fiasco, allegations of death of a deportee, this, etc.

Totally agree, but all that will happen is they will be bidding for more and it will be as if none of this has happened.

Bonuses. Don't forget the bonuses.



There's always bonuses.

If a fraud is proven, who will tag the offenders?

1. Do they drop any money in the party hat when it gets passed around before elections ?



2. Are a government hell-bent on contracting all public services out to private tender willing to admit that actually, some of these private companies are out to skank us of millions ?



3. We need public access TV cameras live in every meeting room in parliament and Downing St for when David and George meet the CEO's of companies that have been found out, except we shouldn't tell David and George that they are on TV - it would be the best viewed program of the year.

Bradford are actively exploring generating new income streams and I believe they have already put in a bid under the name of Bull-Tag

If they strip G4S of all other contracts,who will pick up the slack?



Our governments (of whatever hue), have handed ever increasing numbers of contracts to ever reducing numbers of operators, leading to a situation similar to the banks, where they are too big to fail.

As with East Coast Rail, the Post Office is now making a profit ... so where is the need to privatise it, other than as an ideological imperative to ensure that profit is privatised and debt is socialised?