Re: "BEIS is content with this setup"
no doubt there's a cushy job in it for someone down the line...
There will be, but probably not in the way you assume. BEIS are happy because if it all goes titsup, they can point the finger at Capita and DCC, and say "it wasn't us, it was a private sector contractor that did it and ran away". Which is exactly what they did with the failed "Green Deal". Every aspect of Green Deal was DECC (BEIS predecessor department) doing, but from the very beginnning it was set up to fail outside of DECC. I know, I worked on it, and industry was very clear that they'd made a mess.
Because the useless snivel servants and fuckwit politicians think that approach works, they've done the same with smart meters, and indeed with the "Low Carbon Contracts Company", the quasi private sector company set up to administer the half-witted "Contracts for Difference" intended to add billions of pounds to electricity bills, and then divert that to the builders of Hinkley Point.
The cushy job element is not (generally) for former civil servants, but for anybody with a CV that fits the requirements for the management team of these strange little companies, and who are either not doing much in a real job, or are near retirement age. They can then takeon a job that few other people would, and demand a huge salary for doing an essentially bureaucratic task, managing a few people. In this way, the chap who was chief exec of the Green Deal Finance Company was trousering about a thrid of a million quid a year for managing a company of less than twenty people. He wasn't a civil servant, but obviously knew a few.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
