What are the advantages of PFI?

The review has recognized PFI can provide quality project within the time and budget scale, freedom of innovation, long term relationship, risk transfer from public sector to private sector etc, but has also underlined some drawbacks such as long decision making, high bid cost and lack of experience for both side etc.

What are PFI projects?

A private finance initiative (PFI) is a way of financing public sector projects through the private sector. PFIs alleviate the government and taxpayers of the immediate burden of coming up with the capital for these projects. In the United States, PFIs are also called public-private partnerships.

What is the difference between PPP and PFI?

The key difference between PPP and PFI is the manner in which the arrangement is financed. While PFI will utilise debt and equity finance provided by the private sector to pay for the upfront capital costs, the same is not required in a PPP, where the parties have more freedom to structure their contributions.

What happens at the end of a PFI contract?

Most PFI contracts result in the assets being returned to the authority once the contract ends. One potential benefit of PFI is that the assets should be well maintained throughout the contract life and therefore be in a good condition when returned to the authority.

What is PFI procurement?

PFI is a procurement method where the private sector finances, builds and operates infrastructure and provides long term services and facilities management through long term contractual arrangements (sometimes referred to as concession agreements). …

How do PFI credits work?

PFI credits provided central government funding to local authorities to deliver PFI projects. PFI credits represented a notional capital sum and were intended to support the capital costs of a project. Departments awarded this funding to individual projects, subject to approval from the Projects Review Group.

How many PPP projects are there in the UK?

The UK is the world leader for PPP, with more than 20 years of experience from more than 130 PPP projects.

What is PFI in facilities management?

What is the Private Finance Initiative (PFI)? PFI is a procurement method where the private sector finances, builds and operates infrastructure and provides long term facilities management through long term concession agreements.

Has the government written off NHS debt?

In April 2020, the health and social care secretary announced that over £13bn of debt held by NHS trusts would be written off. All of the debts to be written-off are internal between NHS trusts and the Department of Health and Social Care, so the process does not include borrowing from external sources.

How do we tackle the privatisation of the NHS?

Scaling back scrutiny and accountability are vital ways of providing cover for further NHS privatisation, a policy ministers know to be politically unpopular. Another way of doing this is through the creation of new bodies, spearheaded by figures who are compliant with and sensitive to this government’s agenda.

Why has the NHS been sold off to private companies?

Since that time successive governments have introduced policies that have sold off swathes of the NHS to private companies. Because the NHS is so beloved by the British public, no government has been up-front about what they are doing; to do so would be a vote loser.

Why did the government spend £10bn on private hospitals instead of NHS?

In August last year, the government announced a four-year plan to spent £10bn of taxpayers’ money on private hospitals in order to clear NHS waiting lists. This has been justified as an emergency measure to deal with a backlog, but the question remains why this money was used to fund private providers rather than NHS capacity.

Can a private firm run an NHS hospital?

In 2012 the first contract for a private firm to run an NHS hospital was awarded to Circle Health, founded by Ali Parsa, an investment banker, to run Hinchinbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon on a ten year contract.