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Labour will today launch a bid to force ministers to reveal risk assessments carried out before awarding PFI contracts to Carillion.

The Party will force a binding vote in the House of Commons today, using the same obscure Parliamentary rules that compelled the release of the Brexit impact assessments.

It would force Ministers to release details of any risk assessments carried out before awarding contracts to the doomed outsourcing giant, as well as plans they had to improve them, to a Parliamentary select committee.

Theresa May insisted the government was simply a "customer" of Carillion after she was slammed for handing the firm more than £1billion of public contracts after its profit warning last summer.

Ministers have refused to publish any detail about their contingency plans for Carillion's collapse, despite 20,000 jobs being at risk.

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Shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Trickett said: “Carillion’s collapse has exposed the Tories’ reckless over-reliance on outsourcing in our schools, hospitals and other public services. Yet, looking at the instability of lots of these suppliers, it appears that Carillion is not an isolated case.

“By its own rules, the Government should have taken action to protect our public services, setting out improvement plans for these firms. As we’ve seen no evidence of this, it seems reasonable to conclude Government was asleep on the job. Given this clear incompetence, ministers must hand over the risk assessments and improvement plans so the public can see exactly what has gone on.

“The Tories have overseen a race to the bottom when it comes to these firms’ standards, while costs to British tax payers have skyrocketed. Labour's message to these huge outsourcing firms that have endangered our public services is clear: the party is over.”