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Defence Training Rationalisation Programme

Volume 453: debated on Thursday 23 November 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the affordability of the Defence Training Rationalisation Programme is conditional on it being an off-balance sheet transaction. (101318)

The bids for the DTR PPP are currently under consideration. All solutions involve a significant amount of capital construction during the first five years of the contract that would not be affordable if this project were to be procured conventionally or through an on balance-sheet PFI. As with all such investment proposals, however, the primary consideration is whether it would represent better value for money than the alternative options available.