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In the Seventies, as a Labour backbench MP, I worked to get a public sector order for a major employer in my constituency. The civil servant in charge of the procurement seemed unreasonably obstructive and even to be promoting a competing company’s cause. (Telegraph)

We have not seen much by way of public sector orders since the Government took office. In one classic example, a public sector order went to a foreign yard—namely, the National Environmental Research Council vessel. (UK Parliament)