Sentences with word «privatisation»
Privatisation refers to the process of transferring ownership or control of a company or organization from the government to private individuals or businesses. It means that instead of being managed by the government, the ownership and management of the entity are transferred to private individuals or companies who now have the authority to make decisions and run the operations. Full definition
Conservative Chris Skidmore, who serves on the health select committee, said there had been «a lot of scaremongering» over claims of privatisation of the NHS in England.
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A new series of articles published in the Lancet serves as a timely warning to Australia about the perils of going further down the path of privatisation in health care.
This, more than any other, highlights the drastic need for privatisation in Russia — no longer is the model of nationalisation sustainable in the modern footballing world, as one of the longest legacies of Soviet football haunts Russian football's future.
«The record to date on privatisation of some court functions is woefully poor.
Walter Liedtke killed in train crash; National Gallery staff strike over privatisation plans; two bronzes attributed to Michelangelo
His final intervention in politics was to speak out against privatisation under Thatcher, using a typical Macmillan analogy of «selling off the family silver»
The fact that Labour candidates are happy to accept donations from the man who led us into the illegal war in Iraq, introduced tuition fees and started the process of NHS privatisation is extraordinary.
There were fears of chaos in the government's probation privatisation programme today, after it emerged staff had been selected to be moved to private firms by having their names picked out of a hat.
Professor Cumbers says the UK is now «out of step» with the rest of the world by sticking with privatisation when so many other states are opting for something different.
Panos Kammenos said a demand that Athens hands over $ 50bn in assets from privatisations as collateral for fresh loans was a form of «confiscation» and «we can not agree to that».
consultants to state governments, local and international companies on privatisation processes foreign investments in Nigeria acquisition of shares
Unite the union, which represents police staff has demanded that home secretary, Theresa May steps in to halt police privatisation as the disgraced security company G4S advertises for civilian investigators to work for Warwickshire police.
The lawyer said, «Over the years, successive governments have sold off some of the national heritage in the name of privatisation by alleging that same will bring more economic gain to the nation, however the reverse has been the case.
Coghlan had reported that the laboratory's eminent head, Aaron Klug, strongly opposed privatisation of institutes such as his.
(Though Bours» speech also served up a xenophobic «minimum health standard» implying migrants are unhealthy, and said nothing on reversing privatisation).
The argument for part privatisation of Royal Mail in last month's debate Should Royal Mail stay publicly owned?
Clearly Health will stay a state provided service but in the run up to the election Labour went on and on about privatisation which they when in office pioneered.
The Home Affairs committee has backed Unite's concerns over police privatisation In a report published today (29 May) the respected committee slammed West Midlands and Surrey police forces accusing them both of not having a clue what they are getting their respective police forces into by trying to privatise core services.
12:20 - A critical comment on Royal Mail privatisation earns a full minute of Brown argument on why it's such a wonderful idea.
Lib Dem health minister Norman Lamb announces rewrite of key competition regulations «to remove any doubt» over privatisation fears
Simon has advised rail industry members on the full range of legal issues concerning the strategy, operation and development of the industry since privatisation in 1994.
Lord Mandy (there, that's a compromise) outlined the Government's plans for partial privatisation of the Royal Mail:
This is absolutely not privatisation or a «fire sale» but a reinvestment of wasted assets to improve patient care, stresses Naylor.
Those claiming that the best way forward for Australia is more choice for parents and further privatisation of public education simply speak more from an ideology and mythology standpoint than from available evidence and facts.
For years under privatisation, the swindling of the consumer has gone hand - in - hand with outrageous profit - taking by the corporate giants, to the loss of the public purse.
Hence New Labour attempted no substantive challege to the outcome of Thatcher's privatisation agenda; yet at the same time the key features of the 1960s «permissive society» - e.g. legislation on divorce, abortion and homosexuality - remained largely in place during the long Tory years, despite vile aberations such as Section 28 and the laughable «Back to Basics» campaign.
We saw what happened to other public sector companies after privatisation notably Air India..
Sayanogorsk, Rusal's third biggest aluminium plant, is where Deripaska began buying up workers» shares during Russia's privatisation drive after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Speaking at the Trade Unions Congress (TUC) in Liverpool, Unite assistant secretary general Gail Cartmail said privatisation of the NHS was completely unacceptable.
A leading economist and the Chief Executive Officer of Economic Associates, Dr. Ayo Teriba, has called for the opening of the Nigerian economy through privatisation which stimulates foreign direct investment (FDI.)
They also called on Labour to campaign against creeping privatisation in the NHS, arguing the current «harmful, market - led approach» should be replaced by a system driven by «care, not competition».
With tens of thousands of government scientists facing privatisation as the result of a government - wide review of research establishments (This Week, 12 June), the IPMS sees its fight for consultation as an important test case.
Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners» Elena Gavrilina specialises in major privatisation deals, legal due diligence and projects involving public entities.
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised BHL Limited on the proposed privatisation of Bracell Limited.
In fact, even if some massive privatisation measures have been taken after those initiated in countries of the OECD or in some countries of Eastern Europe, the Latin - American continent has been the witness of the first neo-liberal experience applied in a systematic way.
Lord Mandelson tonight raised the stakes in the battle over the future of the Royal Mail by releasing a letter from its pension trustees warning that if part privatisation does not go ahead, staff may have to see the value of their pension slashed in half.
«Perhaps they fear that the people of Dover know only too well that these plans actually mean privatisation of the port through the back door and so will kick them into touch.
Although the Government has abandoned its plans for wholesale privatisation of the Patent Office, it is still deciding whether to contract out the work of the London office to a private firm.
This drive towards privatisation, the introduction of performance - related pay and the dismantling of national pay has been experienced in England more sharply than almost anywhere else in the world (the USA and Chile excepted).
The issue is the impact of electricity privatisation on power prices.
«The Tories will try to overcome their record as the architects of rail privatisation with a challenge to ministers to spend up to # 8bn from increased franchise deals on tackling overcrowding.
We got the issue away; this was one of the biggest privatisations for 20 years.
In response to the debt crisis structural adjustment programmes were imposed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund as a means to «create macroeconomic stability» through privatisation, the lowering of trade barriers and massive decreases in public spending, particularly on services and civil salaries.
And like Plaid Cymru, the Greens and Labour, they wish to halt privatisation of the NHS, even though they were instrumental in passing the Health and Social Care Act that hastened this process.
Back door privatisation of Health, Education and civil society.
We have particular experience in state - related mandates including privatisations and restructurings.
The leaflet also promised a tranche of Government investment projects for the constituency, including a major, post privatisation up - grade of the Post Office.