Departments: Private Finance Initiative

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the total value of private finance initiative projects included in her Department’s balance sheet (a) is in 2007 and (b) was in each of the last five years, broken down by project. (137808)

A small number of national health service private finance initiative (PFI) schemes are regarded under accounting standards as on balance sheet. These are listed as follows; 100 per cent. of the capital value of these schemes and the corresponding liabilities are on the NHS’s balance sheet.

*On balance sheet PFIs*
£000
NHS body	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Teignbridge Primary Care Trust	0	2,601	2,722	2,098	2,024
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust	34,262	38,484	41,770	44,562	44,853
Queen Mary’s Sidcup NHS Trust	5,454	6,100	6,820	4,500	5,410
Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust	57,700	¹—	46,820	35,306	34,893
Oxleas NHS Trust	8,444	15,306	16,267	17,612	17,153
Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust	0	115,245	115,264	114,909	143,930
¹ Not stated. Source: Audited summarisation schedules of the relevant NHS bodies 2001-02 to 2005-06

Volume 460: debated on Tuesday 22 May 2007