There are a number of examples of the Scottish Government and the private sector working together to deliver strong messaging, and we envisage more opportunities for private b

This spoof item in the latest Private Eye is quite good. I must try and fix my scanner at some point, so I don't have to keep taking photos of things instead of scanning them. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Private Eye on ‘Mayor Scandal'", url: "http://www.boriswatch.co.uk/2008/07/10/private-eye-on-mayor-scandal/" });

When private sector financial services have so obviously failed and when the private sector is sitting on tens, if not, hundreds of billions of cash it has not a clue what to do with it is very obvious that paying the private sector to manage the projects we need to fund our economy, to allocate

The Tories justify their policy to privatise parts of the NHS by claiming that the private sector is more productive/ But it is quite clear from the figures that the private sector is considerably more expensive than the NHS. Andrew Lansley may be right that productivity is increasing in the private sector, but it will need to have some very impressive improvements for it to reach the productivity...

The Department of Health says attempts to discourage primary care trusts from running community hospitals and services will create 'real opportunities' for the private sector

Several papers and comentators have noticed the very different path of public sector and private sector wages. Public sector pay is rising three times as quickly as private sector pay. In the private sector many companies are cutting earnings, and in some cases

David Miliband, House of Commons, debate on PFI in the education sector, 2004: The public-private partnerships enable the public sector to use private sector resources to deliver elements of services that the latter, through its skills and expertise, is best placed to provide through a structure in which the private sector puts its capital at risk

The private business sector has mainly been positive about government cuts, even gleeful at first. But, as we at the TUC have pointed out, the private sector will also be hit by the cuts.

Perhaps, the most important thing about the 0.8 percent growth figure for the third quarter announced this morning is that all but 0.1 percent of it came from the private sector. The strength of the private sector in this quarter suggests that the coalition is right to think that the private sector can more than make up for the jobs that will be lost in the public sector over the coming months. In...

An interesting feature of this morning's Times Populus poll is the split between public sector and private sector workers. The Conservatives do better among private sector workers. No surpirse. But Labour now also do better among private sector workers than...