HC Deb 12 May 1999 vol 331 cc156-7W
Mr. Beith

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list each private finance initiative undertaken with his Department; if he will give the date the initiative started, the companies involved and whether any payments have been reduced to reflect performance against the contract; and if he will make a statement. [83707]

Mr. Straw

The available information is as follows:

Description Start Date (Contract award date) Company Reductions in payment
Manufacture of Digital Passports (United Kingdom Passport Agency) July 1997 Stationery Office Ltd. (now Security Printing Systems) Yes
Gatwick Detention Facilities (Tinsley House) Immigration Centre May 1996 BAA No
Altcourse Prison 20 December 1995 Fazakerley Prison Services Ltd. Yes
Lowdham Grange Prison 7 November 1996 Lowdham Grange Prison Services Ltd. Yes
Parc Prison 4 January 1996 Bridgend Custodial Services Ltd. Yes
Coldingley Prison Industries Workshop 1 November 1997 Wackenhut UK Ltd. 1No
Prison PABX System December 1995 Racal Telecommunications Network Ltd. Yes
Forest Bank Prison June 1998 UKDS No
Ashfield Prison June 1998 PPS No
1contract terminated from 31 January 1999

My Department is also supporting a number of Local Authority Private Finance Initiative Projects as follows:

Description Start Date (Contract award date) Company Reductions in payment
Derbyshire Ilkeston Police Station 13 February 1998 Perveril Securities No
Derbyshire: Divisional Headquarters and City Section Police Station 26 February 1999 Derby SPV Ltd. No
Northumbria Police: Mounted Section 15 May 1998 Bowey PFI Ltd. No
Thames Valley Police: Divisional Headquarters 8 December 1998 Babcock and Brown Properties Ltd. No
Wiltshire Police: Air Support 18 December 1997 Police Aviation Services No
Stretford Divisional Headquarters and Fire Station 4 December 1998 PFF (Stretford Ltd.) No