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Prisons: ‘Failing’ Grayling's lesser-known major cock up
A report by the National Audit Office suggests the bumbling minister did not understand what he was doing when he privatised prison services, writes SOLOMON HUGHES

PRIVATISATION is bad. Chris Grayling is bad. Now-defunct Carillion was bad, but still-trading privatisation corporation Amey is also bad.
That’s the lesson of the highly critical National Audit Office report into Grayling’s prison privatisation, published this February.
The Audit Office is the government’s official spending watchdog. Its report, entitled “Improving the Prison Estate,” shows how Grayling, Carillion and Amey didn’t improve the state of prisons at all.
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