Should public services be run by private equity firms? | Letters

Mal Williams thinks private equity should be excluded from essential services, while Ian Graham draws attention to dental practices. Plus letters from Rob Harrison, Tony Fletcher and Michael Moore, who defends private equity’s role Your timely investigation into private equity’s penetration of public services is important, but the response cannot be merely to “manage” the problem better (‘Financial pandemic’: £1 in every £11 spent on UK public contractors goes to private equity, 28 June). Pri...

By Guardian Staff