Yep. As a for instance, I worked primarily with the Health Records dept and the majority of records were placed with a private storage company but there was next to no storage available on-site at the hospital and that was now full. So we developed our own off-site storage centre. It was significantly cheaper than at the private storage company. But because the trust wasn't prepared to fund the establishment of a proper centre (one that could store all records, free up space at the hospital and be cheaper in the long run) those records remained with the private company and we just dealt with the overflow.
I've heard it's since been closed down due to it needing some more investment that they weren't prepared to pay.

So because they weren't prepared to pay the initial set-up costs (and no senior manager was prepared to take responsibility for the problem) they now have higher on-going costs.
I worked out at the time it would cost roughly 3p per item/record per year including setup costs. At the private company it costed (this was around 2007 if memory serves) 37p.

That may be true but that really isn't the way the debate is being framed is it? It is all about benefit cheats when we face losses in tax income exponentially greater than that.

You may have a point about over inflated salaries in the public sector but I'd suggest even that issue pales into insignificance compared to banking bailouts and tax avoidance.

It is just another distraction to get angry about that is overall, much less of a problem when you look at the actual amounts involved.

If it is not benefits cheats, it is public sector salaries. Both ought to be far down the pecking order of issues to address.

That is complete tosh, as you probably know, you just like to push the myth. If Universities can still be classed as public sector the vast majority of staff earning over £35k would earn more in the private sector.