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The parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has ordered the government to "get its house in order" with IT and other outsourcing companies, demanding that contracts should now be subject to the Freedom of Information Act, to enable greater scrutiny.
Margaret Hodge, chair of the PAC, said, "Private provision of public services has become big business, with half of all public spending on goods and services going to private providers of contracted-out services.