§ Mr. BeithTo 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. StrawThe available information is as follows:
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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