Mr Mann commented: "We are in a very serious place when the companies that are contracted to manage our criminals require a Serious Fraud Office investigation. We need faith and trust in these organisations and until this happens all contracts with Serco and G4S should immediately be suspended and a ban placed on them tendering for new ones. The Government is currently considering proposals for the privatisation of our probation service and it's companies like these that will be angling for the work."
Also commenting on the revelations about G4S and Serco, the Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotka said: "It beggars belief how many times these private companies are allowed to fail and rip off taxpayers and still be awarded government contracts. It ought to be a national scandal but, instead, this Tory-led government actually wants to sell off even more of our public services to these vultures."
