HC Deb 19 March 1997 vol 292 cc661-2W
Mr. Timms

To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage if she will provide figures for her Department's private finance initiative 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. Milbum) of 6 March,Official Report, columns692–93; and if she will list her latest estimates of annual totals for PFI projects, on the same basis as those given in table 5.5 of the Red Book. [20394]

Mr. Sproat

For the first part of the hon. Member's question, I refer him to the reply I gave the hon. Member for Darlington on 13 March,Official Report, columns 281–82.

The current estimates of annual totals for PFI projects, are shown in the following table:

PFI capital expenditure—current revised figures
£ million
PFI capital expenditure 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 Total
Signed contracts 1.4 1.4 1.4 4.2
British Museum Study Centre 6.0 15.8 6.0 27.8
British Museum Great Court 1.0 1.0
Science Museum Wellcome Wing 1.0 1.0
Tate Bankside Roof Observatory 4.0 4.0
Tate Millbank Queen Alexander site 15.0 15.0
Tate Millbank electric sub-station 0.3 0.3
Natural History Museum combined heat and power 1.0 2.0 3.0
British Librarybibliographic cataloguing 4.0 4.0
British Library catering and conference 1.5 1.5
British Library digitisation 35.0 40.0 75.0
Sports Council IT 2.0 2.0
English Heritage— Stonehenge 5.5 20.5 26.0
English Heritage—GIS 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.9
Total 13.2 61.3 91.2 165.7

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