UK government vows to reclaim services from outsourcing giants

The UK government is setting up a new unit it promises will "bring forward the biggest wave of insourcing in a generation." Government outsourcing has long attracted criticism over value for money and service quality, with technology-heavy business processes among the contracts coming under scrutiny. The government said the new unit, based within the Office for the Prime Minister and Cabinet, would "coordinate departmental insourcing activity, unblock barriers to delivery and identify cross-gove