Outsourcing

  • BusinessAOL

    Councils blow millions on benefit lie detector tests

    Lie detector tests haven't performed well in reliability tests. In fact they performed so poorly the Department for Work and Pensions gave up on them in 2010. Yet many UK councils in England still intend to plough millions into voice risk

  • NewsAOL

    Will the state pension be privatised?

    The Department for Work and Pensions is desperately looking for ways to cut costs - and is said to be considering privatising the process of delivering the state pension. The change is a radical one - but the department may need to take radical

  • PoliticsAOL

    CBI calls for services outsourcing

    Outsourcing more public services could save the Government around £22 billion without hitting quality, according to business leaders. The CBI said "inertia" in Whitehall was stopping more state-funded programmes being run by the