§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the cost of the delay since June to private finance initiative schemes for hospitals. [14248]
§ Mr. HuttonShortlisted bidders at three private finance schemes—Stoke Mandeville Hospital National Health Service Trust, South West London Community NHS Trust (Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton) and Havering Hospitals NHS Trust—have delayed submitting best and final offers since June until development work on a new retention of employment model (ROE), under which ancillary services staff could retain their NHS employment terms but be managed by the private sector, is completed. It is expected that this work will be completed before the end of the year.
No other PFI schemes are at a stage where the ROE development is causing a delay.