A Commons committee has announced it will hold an inquiry into government outsourcing following the demise of Carillion.
Bernard Jenkin, chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, said it would look at the "lessons to be learned from the collapse".
It will also look at wider issues in Whitehall around public procurement, IT and the relationship with non-public sector bodies.
In an ideal world these turkeys would find themselves standing outside the building in the freezing rain because the contractor servicing parliament had just gone bust.