To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 2 March 2007 to the hon. Member for Ludlow (Mr. Dunne), Official Report, column 1586W, on Russells Hall Hospital, if she will list the private finance initiative projects where the increase in costs has been met by the Department increasing the revenue allocation for the trust and providing additional capital; and how much this amounted to in each such case. (129882)

The decision for the Department to meet the additional costs at Russells Hall Hospital arose out of a one off settlement of a contractual dispute between the trust and its private sector partner. To date the Department has not directly met cost increases at any other private finance initiative project.