As the Chacellor prepares to deliver his Autumn statement, one group of businessmen know they will keep making vast profits from our taxes while getting us ever deeper into debt.
Since 1997 almost every new school and hospital in the UK has been built by private companies who lease them back to the government. But what's in it for the taxpayer?
of what has become the government's flexible friend - the Private Finance Initiative - a kind of ministerial credit card which racks up huge public debts without showing on the nation's balance sheet.
He uncovers
And he asks why the coalition government signed so many PFI deals when in opposition both the prime minister and his deputy branded them as 'dodgy accounting'.
Victims of burglary and other crimes are increasingly being offered the opportunity to meet the criminals who offended against them, in a controversial scheme aimed at empowering victims and potentially cut levels of re-offending among former prisoners.
Panorama reporter Raphael Rowe goes into a jail to witness a tense encounter between two young women and the youth who broke into their home while they slept.
Meetings between victims and offenders have proved to be remarkably successful in cutting reoffending and allowing victims to recover far more quickly.
The government wants to see more of these restorative justice meetings used in the criminal justice system following all types of crimes.
Another victim of a horrific attack reveals to Panorama how her true motive in agreeing to meet her burglar was to get revenge and kill him.
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Panorama's Jeremy Vine went behind the lines with Manchester's police and into the interview rooms with the rioters to tell the inside story of one of the cities most affected by the August riots.
For the first time, a police force allowed access to its footage from this summer's running battles - this time, on the streets of Manchester and Salford.
The programme reveals how in Salford there was more to the rioting than opportunistic looting.
And it follows the police investigation as they sought to identify and arrest some 700 rioters caught on camera at 300 separate crime scenes.
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Panorama's Tom Heap investigates the inconvenient truth behind the UK's rocketing energy bills - that government policy is stoking much of the rise.
Your money is being
As power stations are closed down, due to old age or high carbon emissions, £200bn is needed to keep the lights on.
Fuel poverty now threatens one in four households yet the government remains committed to expensive alternatives like offshore wind and nuclear power: greener but, so far, dearer.
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It is estimated that £22billion of taxpayers' money is effectively stolen or lost every year through fraud and error across all government departments.
A significant chunk of that is benefit fraud - money that could end up being taken out of the pockets of those in genuine need.
In this Panorama Special, Richard Bilton uses
And he follows fraud investigators as they tackle the rising tide of benefits cheats using fake identities to steal millions.
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