UK government vows to reclaim services from outsourcing giants

The UK government is creating a unit inside the Office for the Prime Minister and Cabinet to coordinate the "biggest wave of insourcing in a generation," bringing critical service contracts back in-house and cutting spending on consultants. The move follows the troubled start of Capita's £239 million contract to run the Civil Service Pension Scheme.

• New unit will coordinate departmental insourcing and remove delivery barriers
• Public Interest Test applies to central government contracts worth £1 million or more
• Capita's seven-year pension administration contract is worth £239 million
• Cabinet Office building management could be insourced when contracts end in 2028