Backbytes: Austerity? What austerity?

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Austerity never comes for the outsourcing companies whose income has risen by a quarter, according to the Institute for Government

When "austerity" was declared in 2010, it was widely expected that the computer services giants would be among the casualties. After all, such IT project clusterbombs as the National Programme for ...

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