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Hospitals: Costs

Volume 472: debated on Wednesday 27 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to the answer of 6 July 2007, Official Report, column 656W, on hospitals: costs, which buildings procured under the private finance initiative his Department's Private Finance Unit has assessed as not representing better value for money overall when compared with the public sector; and if he will make a statement. (175350)

Private finance initiative (PFI) was considered for the schemes listed as follows but in each case did not produce a suitable value for money solution:

£ million

Capital value

1997

Rochdale NHS Trust1

24

Central Sheffield University Hospitals NHS Trust1

24

Berkshire and Battle NHS Foundation Trust1

84

Guy's and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust1

50

2000

Thames Gateway NHS Trust1

13

Southampton Community Health Services NHS Trust2

20

Portsmouth Healthcare NHS Trust3

11

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust3

14

2003

East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust

250

2004

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

50

2006

Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust

167

2007

Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust4

400

Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust4

200

Whips Cross University Hospitals Hospital NHS Trust

328

South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

164

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

711

1 These schemes subsequently went ahead using public capital.

2 This was retendered as a PFI scheme and opened to patients in January 2007.

3 These schemes were incorporated into larger PFI schemes which subsequently went ahead.

4 These schemes were proposals developed after an initial £340 million scheme which went out to the Official Journal of the European Union in 2004 was reviewed.