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UK outsourcing

  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Law
    Serco settles landmark shareholder lawsuit

    Case over share price drop was first of its kind in England to go to trial

    A Serco flag flies alongside a Union flag
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    UK infrastructure
    PFI contract disputes risk disrupting schools and hospitals, warns Labour peer

    Lord Hutton urges Treasury to intervene as public authorities and private sector argue over infrastructure deals

    Whittington Hospital in Archway north London
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Law
    Serco faces landmark shareholder lawsuit over mischarging scandal

    US-style securities trial over stock-price drop set to be first of its kind in England

    An electronic ankle tag on a teenage offender in the UK and the Serco logo
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    News in-depth
    Private providers winning big fees on UK public sector contracts, experts warn

    Procurement specialists say market for ‘framework agreements’ is insufficiently regulated and raises cost to taxpayer

    FT montage including close-up photo of two people shaking hands
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Process for UK government contracts erodes ‘transparency’, warn experts

    Surge in ‘framework agreements’ via pre-approved shortlists makes it harder for small business to compete, says FSB

    NHS construction site
  • Tuesday, 7 May, 2024
    Ministry of Defence UK
    UK probes ‘potential failings’ at military contractor over suspected China hack

    Grant Shapps announces investigation into attack by ‘malign actor’ that targeted up to 270,000 military personnel records

    Grant Shapps in Downing Street
  • Wednesday, 6 March, 2024
    Capita PLC
    Capita shares tumble as it reports £107mn loss

    London-listed outsourcing group expands cost-cutting programme

    Person holding smartphone with logo of British process outsourcing company Capita
  • Wednesday, 13 December, 2023
    UK politics
    UK ministers unable to prove £259bn on procurement was spent wisely

    Damning report by MPs urges departments to ensure more ‘robust’ competition for contracts

    Clinical staff wear personal protective equipment as they care for a patent at the intensive care unit at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge
  • Friday, 10 November, 2023
    Babcock International Group PLC
    Babcock wins £750mn UK submarine maintenance contract

    Defence company to upgrade infrastructure at the Devonport naval base

    Plymouth port area, including the site of the Devonport freeport, in England in March 2021
  • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
    News in-depth
    ‘Toxic’ relationships, shouting and lawsuits: the painful end to PFI

    Public authorities and lenders are clashing over hospitals and schools as private finance initiative contracts draw to a close

  • Tuesday, 24 October, 2023
    IPOs
    Four months in the life of a London IPO

    CABtastrophe

  • Monday, 28 August, 2023
    Health sector
    Full details of UK Covid contracts worth £8bn still to be published

    Inquiry into government handling of the pandemic finds breaches of Cabinet Office transparency guidelines

    NHS staff carry out Coronavirus tests
  • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
    Private equity
    Scandal-hit children’s care homes up for sale by private equity owner

    UK authorities found young people at three Hesley establishments were subjected to abuse and neglect

    A child sitting on a bed looks out of the window
  • Sunday, 13 August, 2023
    Healthcare
    Private equity groups bet on UK healthcare as NHS waiting lists grow

    Number of deals in sector hits highest level in a decade despite wider M&A slowdown

    A health worker walks between two blue curtains in a hospital ward
  • Monday, 31 July, 2023
    Capita PLC
    Capita chief Lewis to step down

    Appointment of Amazon Web Services executive comes after data breaches at UK outsourcer

    The logo of Capita group
  • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
    Capita PLC
    Capita’s own pension scheme suffered data breach in March hack

    Revelation comes as PwC retirement fund members learn additional personal data compromised in attack on outsourcer

    Capita logo
  • Monday, 3 July, 2023
    Carillion PLC
    Former Carillion finance chief barred from UK boards for 11 years

    Decision by Insolvency Service is the first boardroom ban on an executive of failed construction company

    Carillion’s former finance director Zafar Khan at a parliamentary committee meeting in February 2018
  • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
    Global outsourcing
    Immigration: outsourcers will receive contracts surge — and painful scrutiny Premium content

    Risks such as scandals around the treatment of migrants can destabilise businesses

    Serco logo
  • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
    Capita PLC
    Capita’s data breach fallout widens as local councils launch probes

    Local authorities confirm their files were left in unsecured cloud-based data storage system

    Capita logo on a mobile phone
  • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
    Capita PLC
    Capita hit by new data breach incident

    Colchester Council said files including benefits data were found on an unsecured Amazon Data Bucket controlled by the outsourcer

    A person sat behind a screen with Capita in the background
  • Friday, 12 May, 2023
    Universities Superannuation Scheme
    Leading pensions client warns data for 470,000 members at risk from Capita hack

    UK’s biggest private sector pension plan says private details of members were on outsourcer’s hacked servers

    A Capita logo
  • Wednesday, 10 May, 2023
    Capita PLC
    Capita says cyber attack will cost it up to £20mn

    Data was leaked from less than 0.1% of outsourcer’s servers as result of incident, says company

    Capita logo
  • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
    Cyber Security
    Capita warns some pensions data ‘likely’ to have been taken in cyber attack

    Outsourcer tells trustees its investigation could be finalised by end of next week

    A person holding a smartphone with Capita’s logo in its screen in front of a computer showing its website
  • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
    Capita PLC
    FCA contacts Capita’s clients over cyber attack

    UK regulators urge outsourcer’s customers, including insurers and pension funds, to examine data loss

    The Capita logo
  • Friday, 31 March, 2023
    Capita PLC
    Capita hit by IT failure that left staff unable to access services

    UK outsourcer and government contractor says local authority as well as business services were disrupted

    Capita logo on a phone
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