You can't beat privatisation for value : Thu Jul 11, 2013 12:50 pm  

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. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23272708 You couldn't make it up.

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. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23272708 You couldn't make it up.

Re: You can't beat privatisation for value : Thu Jul 11, 2013 12:58 pm  

Sounds like that's exactly what they did.

Re: You can't beat privatisation for value : Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:09 pm  

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).

Re: You can't beat privatisation for value : Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:13 pm  

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

In a Commons statement, Mr Grayling said he had also launched a disciplinary investigation into the way the contracts had been managed inside the Ministry of Justice after uncovering evidence that officials knew in 2008 that there were problems with how both companies were billing for tagging.

Re: You can't beat privatisation for value : Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:30 pm  

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.

Re: You can't beat privatisation for value : Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:59 pm  

Dally wrote:

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.

Re: You can't beat privatisation for value : Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:48 pm  

Bonuses. Don't forget the bonuses.

There's always bonuses.

Re: You can't beat privatisation for value : Thu Jul 11, 2013 3:14 pm  

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

Re: You can't beat privatisation for value : Thu Jul 11, 2013 3:16 pm  

Dally wrote:

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.

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.

Re: You can't beat privatisation for value : Thu Jul 11, 2013 3:59 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

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

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