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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Local Partnerships, the body established to support and improve public services and infrastructure at community level, comes into operation today.  Local Partnerships will operate at a local level and act as a single source of expert advice on projects and infrastructure delivery at a time when decentralisation, joined up working and greater efficiency are increasingly important.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

KPMG has recently published a report which concludes that educational performance in newly rebuilt PFI schools improves faster than in conventional ones. The KPMG report entitled “PFI in school building – does it influence educational outcomes?” follows a first report, published in 2008 and tries to answer the following questions: Do last year’s results prevail? Does PFI influence student achievement? Is student motivation affected? What are the possible policy implications?

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Charles Lloyd, head of PPPs at HM Treasury, recently made a statement outlining  the Treasury's Infrastructure Finance Unit (TIFU). 

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

In the Budget published on 22 April 2009, the Government reconfirmed its commitment to PFI and its establishment of an infrastructure debt financing unit to be called the Treasury Infrastructure Finance Unit (TIFU). The Government stated it has decided to move away from the Wave based model in relation to BSF and also stated it plans to commit more than £2 billion of PFI credits in the Waste sector.  

Thursday, March 26, 2009

The Finance Committee of the National Assembly of Wales recently published a document entitled "Inquiry into Public Private Partnerships".

Thursday, March 26, 2009

The National Audit recently published a report entitled "Managing the waste PFI programme".

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