HC Deb 30 April 2002 vol 384 c761W
Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the total savings to public funds of the Private Finance Initiative contract for a medium secure unit for the Oxfordshire Mental Health Care NHS Trust by comparison with a non-Private Finance Initiative alternative. [49536]

Ms Blears

The business case justifying the individual schemes estimated the net savings in present value terms (ie all future costs and benefits discounted to their present values) compared with publicly funding the scheme as follows:

Net present costs of PSC v. PFI option
Trust PFI (£000) Public (£000) Savings in net present value terms (£000) Difference (Percentage)
Oxfordshire Mental Healthcare NHS Trust 3,707 3,777 70 2