Local Government: Public Private Partnerships

(asked on 23rd November 2016) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the value of local authority debts accrued from public-private partnership developments since 2010 in (a) England and (b) Wiltshire.


Answered by
David Gauke Portrait
David Gauke
This question was answered on 1st December 2016

The values of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) liabilities included in the Statement of Financial Position of the Whole of Government Accounts (WGA) are:

Financial year

English local authorities £m

Wiltshire Council £m

2014-15

11,985.3

51.7

2013-14

11,610.3

53.4

2012-13

10,850.9

37.1

2011-12

9,935.4

30.4

2010-11

8,930.1

31.0

2009-10

8,039.0

42.2

The most recent WGA is for the 2014-15 financial year and was published in May 2016. The 2015-16 WGA is currently being prepared and will be published in 2017.

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