Part of this is a second order effect of supression of public sector wages. For a lot of highly paid specialities it's become impossible to recruit to retain re

Part of this is a second order effect of supression of public sector wages. For a lot of highly paid specialities it's become impossible to recruit to retain real talent in the public sector when they're going to be paid a multiple in the private sector. The net result is the real wages are masked through consultancy arrangements at even higher total cost to avoid having to admit effectively paying public servents more than they're 'allowed to' and everybody loses except for the middle men raking off a profit.