NHS: Private Finance Initiative

(asked on 22nd June 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to centralise the PFI debt burden, removing it from individual NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 30th June 2017

It is of upmost importance that the public sector as a whole gets value for money out of all of its contracts and private finance initiative (PFI) contracts are no different. The Department has for some time, helped and advised local trust contract managers where requested in relation to PFI issues, and also supports trusts in making operational savings in the services provided as part of their PFI schemes. The decisions about these services are however best made at a local level where they interact with local healthcare delivery activities, and it is for this reason that the Department’s view is that there would be no real benefit in, for example, the Department assuming the obligations within a PFI contract.

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