The Government is to introduce new rules for companies working on public contracts to clean up the sector and prevent a future collapse like Carillion.
Private sector companies will have to show taxpayers how money is being spent and publish data for cutting the gender pay gap and improving ethnic minority representation if they want to win contracts.
Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Cabinet Office minister David Lidington outlined new proposals to keep bids for public sector work competitive while ensuring companies “play by the same rules”, rather than seeing the state absorb more of the work.
“Some still believe that the state is the answer to everything,” Mr Lidington writes today, claiming...