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Letters: What I’d like for Christmas is a Guardian booklet identifying everything that used to be a public service or utility that is now a nice little earner for some private company
Natalie Hanman: Debate of the day: Figures released today show the work programme has fallen short of its target to get long-term unemployed people into jobs
Jonty Olliff-Cooper, director of policy and strategy at A4E, talks to Kate McCann about private and public sector boundaries and a lack of funding for the Work Programme
Christmas request: who sold Britain?