I wrote an article about this for the current issue of Socialist Register (see http://socialistregister.com/index.php/srv/issue/view/1223). Here is an extract:
According to a report commissioned by the Labour Government in 2008* outsourced public services accounted for nearly 6% of GDP in the UK, directly employing over 1.2 million people, with a turnover of £79 billion in 2007-8 - an increase of 126% over the estimated £31 billion in 1995-6. The report dubbed this rapidly-expanding sector 'the public services industry' (PSI) and noted that, in terms of value added, it 'is significantly larger than "food, beverages and tobacco" (23bn in 2006), "communications" (£28bn), "electricity, gas and water supply" (£32bn) and "hotels and catering" (£36bn)'. This phenomenon is not peculiar to Britain. As a share of GDP, the PSI sector was estimated in that year to be even higher in Sweden and Australia. In absolute terms, the UK PSI market, at £79.4bn, was second only to that of the USA (at £393.bn) but the sector was nevertheless significant in scale elsewhere, with an estimated value, for instance, of £44.8bn in France, £32.2bn in Australia and £24.7bn in Spain. If a somewhat broader definition were to be applied, encompassing former public utilities like post, telecommunications, water and energy, these figures would be considerably larger .
*Julius, D. (2008) Public Services Industry Review, London: Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
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I'd be very interested in seeing statistics about how much public money goes into the private sector. I'm sure there must be some spillover analysis somewhere but it seems to me that the debate is unhelpfully splitting the public sector and the private sector in the Kleinian sense.
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Ministers claim that public sector pay is better than that in the private sector, but critics point out that this is not comparing like for like. Where there are comparable jobs, private sector employees get over 5% more pay plus perks such as company cars. Why are these statements not challenged more openly?
Gavin Ross
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Yesterday it was announced that "The Cabinet Office said that "significantly less than a third" of civil servants - 146256 out of a total of 489000 - had taken part in strike action."
In a discussion on yesterday's Newsnight, Mark Serwotka, General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, was critical of that figure. He said: "even if everyone was at work, the idea that they could get that figure in five hours is laughable". Paxman asked: "Are you seriously accusing the Minister of making it up?" The reply: "I'm accusing the Minister of misleading ... and potentially lying to people". The interview, which is worth reviewing, is available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15984068.
I have taken the lead quotation from Google's record of the BBC report, recorded one hour ago. However, the stated figures have now disappeared from the written BBC report.
There is a previous encounter between Maude and Serwotka recorded at http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/06/30/audio-the-moment-francis-maude-got-rumbled-on-pensions/
Paul Spicker
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