I assure you - I'm a real financial wizard The long and expensive saga of PFI continues... The story so far (see many previous posts gathered here): Once upon a time, PFI was meant to save taxpayers money. The idea was that by leasing schools, hospitals and roads from private sector providers, we'd benefit from their superior efficiency in designing, building, and operating such faciliti...

Patients are using private hospitals at the expense of the NHS. However, this is a good thing. Despite the claims by doctors this is “losing” public money to the private sector: This is money that is being lost from the NHS. That can compromise services and patients should be told that by going private in this way

Nick Clegg has today launched the Lib Dems’ ‘Ask the People in the Know’ project inviting public sector workers to help identify ways in which government can cut out waste while protecting services in order to save taxpayers’ money. Anyone working in the public sector can submit their ideas on where money can be saved at

The TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA) today criticised the Government for using taxpayers' money as an easy way out, and urged them to explore other solutions that would limit the amount of our money at risk. With taxpayers' money on the line,...

It appears that a catalogue of failures can still - provided one is not a prime minister who launched an unjustified invasion of a sovereign country, or the shyster posing as an attorney general who provided the legalese, or the chancellor who poured taxpayers' money into the criminal enterprise, or the chancellor who poured taxpayers' money into private-sector profiteering schemes which

Taxpayers are getting worse value for money from the billions of pounds invested in schools by Labour than at the start of the decade, official figures showed.

Private schools are being forced to take money saving steps such as turning down the heating and delaying building projects in a bid to beat the credit crisis and keep fees down amid the growing economic crisis.

George Osborne claimed £40 for DVDs of two of his own speeches on 'value for money' for taxpayers. Which is quite lovely.

I would love to hear from AEP, or from Prof Congdon, exactly how creating money is supposed to create wealth. If the Central Banks of the world buy private sector bank debt, they create new demand-deposit money that the private sector banking system can then lend. So more money units chase the same goods and services? Where is the new wealth? - Toby Baxendale...

Ministers do not "fully understand" the consequences of increasing the amount of money NHS hospitals can earn from private patients, an MP says.