It just adds further fuel to calls for proper sector-wide regulation.
However, participants strongly disagreed about what exactly constitutes the private sector and what its proper sphere of responsibility should be.
President Hassan Sheik Mohamud of Somalia said in an interview that his country desperately needed to replace its informal money transfer business with a proper banking sector, but that it needed more time.
"They were the first government in the world to recognise it as a proper industrial sector," explains William Sargent, co-founder and chief executive of Oscar-winning creative studio Framestore.
But in practice the remuneration and pricing policies of these companies had so alienated most "proper" private-sector business folk that they just about gave the party the benefit of the doubt.
The intermediate level is comprised of 17 provincial health bureaus, in charge of coordinating all health activities of the province, supporting the health districts and ensuring proper collaboration between sectors.
Ofsted's system is not even a proper rendition of private sector values, just a perversion of them.
In the end, a great deal depends on the assumptions that researchers make while trying to do proper comparisons between private sector and public workers.
The deputy prime minister said: "Our overall demands: slow the pace of change, don't give preference to the private sector and proper accountability – all of these things have been very, very handsomely met.
We will seek to regulate the so-called "revolving door", by which individuals are able to move too easily between positions of influence in government into the private sector without proper protections being put in place.
"These figures from the MDU bear out concerns raised by a major independent report in 2010 by the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death and the longstanding call from surgeons that the cosmetic sector needs proper regulation," said Steve Cannon, a Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSE) council member and chair of the college's working group on cosmetic surgery standards.
