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    We do indeed need to know what our Government is up to..................

    The great Civil Service sell-off: Dozens of services and 75,000 staff set to be transferred to private sector

    Unions denounce sale as 'privatisation by stealth'

    Ministers are preparing to spin off "dozens" of state-owned services into independent companies in what

    could be one of the largest privatisation programmes since the 1980s.

    Under plans being rolled out by the Cabinet Office, millions of pounds' worth of state-owned services

    will be spun off into independent companies - jointly owned by private-sector investors and their

    employees - within the next two years. Eventually as many as one in six civil servants - or 75,000 staff -

    could be transferred into the private sector with the Government maintaining a minority stake and offering

    long-term contracts to the new companies to encourage investment.

    Today the Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude will announce that the Government's Behavioural

    Insights Team - known as the "nudge unit" - will become the most high-profile area of Government

    to be "mutualised".

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