Private Finance Initiative

HC Deb 17 March 1997 vol 292 cc459-61W

Mr. Milburn

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will provide a breakdown by project of PFI schemes for which his Department is responsible as identified in table 5.5 of the Red Book. [18934]

Mr. Michael Forsyth

[holding answer 6 March 1997]: Table 1 gives a breakdown of the forecasts for Scotland in table 5.5 of the Red Book. It is possible to give a meaningfull breakdown of the forecasts by project only for the Scottish Office's own projects and those of its agencies and nationalised industries. Forecasts for other sectors are based on information supplied by the public bodies concerned and the views of the Scottish Office and the Forestry Commission of the likely progress of the PFI in these sectors.

Table 2 lists the latest forecasts on the same basis.

Table 1: Red Book forecasts
	Estimated capital investment (£ million)
	1997–98	1998–99	1999–00	Total
Scottish Office, Agencies and nationalised industries:
M6 completion	22	70	30	122
M8 completion	25	50	40	115
M80 completion	—	—	25	25
Bowhouse prison	40	40	—	80
Inverness Airport terminal (Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd.)	1	2	1	4
Water and sewerage	60	230	307	597
Further and higher education	5	3	3	11
Health	100	150	270	520
Forestry Commission: timber harvesting	10	11	14	35
"Scotland" total in Red Book	263	556	690	1,509
Scottish local authority projects	22	104	105	231

Figures are rounded to the nearest £ million.

Table 2: Latest estimates
	Estimated capital investment (£ million)
	1997–98	1998–99	1999–2000	Total
Scottish Office, Agencies and nationalised industries:
M6 completion	37	59	33	130
M8 completion	25	50	40	115
M80 completion	—	—	15	15
Bowhouse prison	20	60	—	80
Inverness Airport terminal (Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd.)	9	—	—	9
Water and sewerage	60	230	307	597
Further and higher education	10	8	3	21
Health	100	150	270	520
Forestry Commission: timber harvesting	10	11	14	35
"Scotland" total in Red Book format	270	568	682	1,520
Scottish local authority projects	22	103	100	225

Note:

Figures are rounded to the nearest £ million.

Mr. Timms

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will provide figures for his Department's PFI projects in the same form as used by the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, in his answer to the hon. Member for Darlington (Mr. Milburn) of 6 March,Official Report, columns 692–93; and if he will list his latest estimates of annual totals for PFI projects, on the same basis as those given in Table 5.5 of the Red Book. [20395]

Mr. Forsyth

I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Darlington (Mr. Milburn) today.