HC Deb 07 May 2002 vol 385 cc104-6W
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 the Energy Management Scheme for the North Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust by comparison with a non-Private Finance Initiative alternative. [49514]

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
£000s
Trust PFI Public 1Savings Difference
North Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust 3,914 4,340 426 11%
1In net present value terms.

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 the Graylingwell hospital reprovision for the Sussex Weald and Downs NHS Trust by comparison with a non-Private Finance Initiative alternative. [49542]

Ms Blears

The business case justifying the individual schemes estimated the net savings in present value terms (ie 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
£000s
Trust PFI Public 1Savings Difference
West Sussex Health and Social Care NHS Trust 3,772 3,491 281 7.45%
1In net present value terms.

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 the Patient Management Centre for the North Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust by comparison with a non-Private Finance Initiative alternative. [49523]

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
£000s
Trust PFI Public 1Savings Difference
North Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust 2,081 2,289 208 10%
1In net present value terms.

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 the MRI Scanner for the North Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust by comparison with a non-private finance initiative alternative. [49527]

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:

North Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Net present costs of PSC v. PFI option
PFI(£000) 2,487
Public (£000) 3,130
Savings in net present value terms (£000) 643
Percentage difference 26