§ Mr. ColmanTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many(a) solely state-financed and (b) public-private partnership and private finance initiative projects for which his Department is responsible have been launched in each region in each of the last 10 years; [160973]
(2) how much was spent by (a) the Government on solely state-financed projects and (b) the (i) Government and (ii) private sector on public-private and private finance initiative projects for which his Department is responsible in each of the last 10 years, broken down by region. [160974]
§ Mr. BoatengInformation on signed private finance initiative projects is submitted to the Treasury by Departments. A spreadsheet of these data, which were 103W last submitted in July 2003, is available from the HM Treasury website at http://www.hm-treasurv.gov.uk/documents/public_private_partnerships/pop pfi_stats.cfm. The spreadsheet can be searched by sponsoring Department, capital value and region.
Information on individual conventionally procured capital projects is not held centrally and is a matter for individual Departments.
The Treasury itself has not launched any conventionally procured capital projects in the last 10 years.