Can I just add to this?
I think the first step is having greater transparency and disclosure. I think it would be a very good idea to have some sort of assessment process to find out if proposals for private contracting could be done more efficiently in-house, because obviously that would be better. But I think the first step is transparency and disclosure.
My concern with this legislation is that it is so focused on public spending and so little on private contracts and goods and services with the private sector that it is going to put any NGOs, any other public bodies, under incredible scrutiny, and that in itself will lead to an insidious prejudice against public spending in this area because we won't have any focus on the private sector spending.