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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
You forgot to mention your own vested interest in not wanting any further cuts to local Government funding.
Services classified as statutory can be reclassified or outsourced to the private/voluntary sector. They need not always be viewed as statutory functions, nor must they always be carried out by the local authority.
Didn't you learn anything from CCT/Best value/market testing?
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Where they are delivered at higher cost and lower quality to service users due to the loss of economies of scale. The pretence that anything delivered by the public sector can magically be done by someone else is exactly the decades of economic failure that Truss is talking about.
All the attractive stuff is gone - end users being price gouged by train operators, energy companies and broadband providers where competition has been entirely manufactured.
Taking a paid job and handing it to someone in the voluntary sector takes spending power out of the local economy.