HC Deb 17 March 1997 vol 292 c451W
Mr. Timms

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Darlington (Mr. Milburn) of 6 March,Official Report, columns 730–31, 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 of 6 March, Official Report, columns 692–93. [20383]

Mr. Robert B. Jones

My answer of 6 March to the hon. Member for Darlington (Mr. Milburn) provides the maximum possible information on capital investment in individual projects, without releasing commercially sensitive details, particularly for those projects still in procurement.

Mr. Timms

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will provide figures for local authority 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 local authority PFI projects, on the same basis as those given in table 5.5 of the Red Book. [20397]

Mr. Jones

The Red Book gives estimates for total capital spend by contractors on PFI projects. Information in this form for individual projects is not held centrally. We have announced support for up to £250 million of PFI investment to the end of 1997–98. The public private partnerships programme has recently announced a series of PFI patherfinder projects which are expected to be signed in the forthcoming months.