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Private Finance Initiative

Volume 472: debated on Wednesday 27 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the total capital value is of each private finance initiative scheme overseen by his Department which has reached financial close, broken down by scheme; and, for each such scheme, (a) over what period repayments will take place and (b) what the total cost of repayment will be, expressed in (i) real terms and (ii) cash terms. (184561)

The information is shown in the following table.

National health service organisation

Operational

Capital value (£ million)

Contract length (operational phase)

Total value of annual unitary payments (cash terms) (£ million)

Total value of annual unitary payments (real terms) (£ million)

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Yes

87

30

900

535

Derby Hospitals NHS Trust

No

312

35

2,082

1,248

University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Trust

Yes

67

35

1,064

653

Queen Mary’s Hospital Sidcup NHS Trust/Oxleas NHS Trust

Yes

21

30

134

85

Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust

No

512

37

2,856

1,805

Doncaster and South Humber Healthcare NHS Trust

Yes

12

30

80

51

University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust

No

627

35

2,582

1,645

Barts and the London NHS Trust

No

1000

35

5,295

3,374

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

Yes

379

35

2,962

1,887

St. Helen’s and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust

No

338

35

1,648

1,050

Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust

Yes

238

36

1,749

1,119

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Yes

110

35

627

403

South West Essex Teaching PCT

No

32

30

152

98

Salford Royal Hospitals NHS Trust

No

190

34

621

401

Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust

No

169

34

652

422

North Middlesex Hospitals NHS Trust

No

144

34

1,038

670

North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Yes

67

30

570

372

Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust

Yes

137

37

1,060

694

Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals

No

299

33

1,240

813

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust

No

238

32

1,583

1,052

University College London Hospitals NHS Trust

Yes

422

32

1,926

1,280

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust

No

326

32

1,599

1,062

Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

No

336

32

1,343

893

Mid Essex Hospitals NHS Trust

No

148

32

678

450

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Yes

265

33

976

653

Derbyshire Mental Health Services NHS Trust

No

36

30

137

92

South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

No

32

30

115

78

West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

Yes

60

33

515

347

East and North Hertfordshire PCT

Yes

15

30

83

56

Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust

Yes

72

32

268

182

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust

Yes

28

30

153

104

Sussex Partnership NHS Trust

Yes

22

30

151

103

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust

Yes

65

30

731

499

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Yes

17

30

114

78

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

Yes

26

30

138

95

Leeds Mental Health Teaching NHS Trust

Yes

47

26

363

248

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Yes

30

30

185

126

West Berkshire PCT

Yes

19

30

139

95

Newham Healthcare NHS Trust

Yes

52

30

492

336

Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust

No

36

30

127

87

Lincolnshire Teaching PCT

No

29

30

104

71

University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust

No

375

30

1,788

1,222

Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust

Yes

64

30

464

317

South Tees Acute Hospital NHS Trust

Yes

122

30

1,149

785

Devon PCT

Yes

10

30

64

43

Avon and Western Wiltshire MH NHS Trust

Yes

83

30

275

188

Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust

Yes

96

30

799

546

Surrey PCT

Yes

29

30

132

90

Nuffield Orthopaedic NHS Trust

Yes

37

30

191

131

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

No

67

30

178

121

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

Yes

36

30

180

123

Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

No

353

32

1,187

811

Brent PCT

Yes

21

30

125

85

Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Yes

45

30

441

301

Cornwall Healthcare NHS Trust

Yes

10

30

108

74

North East London Mental Health NHS Trust

Yes

11

30

51

35

Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust

No

21

30

113

77

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Trust

Yes

18

30

253

173

St. George’s Healthcare NHS Trust

Yes

46

32

319

220

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust

No

75

29

277

192

Tameside and Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust

No

112

34

442

306

The Whittington NHS Trust

Yes

32

30

158

110

The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust

Yes

13

30

130

90

Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Trust

Yes

31

30

210

145

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Yes

76

30

266

184

Salisbury Health Care NHS Trust

Yes

24

30

104

72

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

No

19

30

94

65

Wandsworth PCT

Yes

75

30

429

298

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Yes

22

30

84

59

Northamptonshire Teaching PCT

Yes

28

30

90

62

Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust

Yes

118

30

788

548

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Yes

14

30

73

50

County Durham and Darlington Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Yes

10

30

90

62

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Yes

30

30

108

75

Hampshire PCT

Yes

36

30

194

135

North West London Hospitals NHS Trust

Yes

69

30

299

208

Kirklees PCT

Yes

25

30

90

62

Norfolk and Norwich Health Care NHS Trust

Yes

158

30

1,647

1,149

County Durham and Darlington Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Yes

48

30

366

256

Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Yes

47

30

438

306

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Yes

30

30

134

93

Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust

Yes

134

30

832

582

County Durham and Darlington Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Yes

61

30

525

367

Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust

No

129

30

690

483

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Yes

32

30

142

99

Kingston Hospital NHS Trust

Yes

28

30

338

236

Northgate and Prudhoe—Neuro Disability Centre

Yes

24

30

62

44

King’s College Hospital NHS Trust

Yes

76

35

727

520

Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust

Yes

100

28

689

494

East London and the City Mental Health NHS Trust

Yes

15

30

63

45

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust

Yes

16

30

32

23

Northumbria Health Care NHS Trust

Yes

54

30

253

185

Northumbria Health Care NHS Trust

Yes

18

30

72

53

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Trust

No

36

28

139

104

Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust

Yes

54

30

622

471

Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust

Yes

15

30

51

39

Dartford and Gravesham Hospital NHS Trust

Yes

94

25

602

471

Total

10,480

59,396

39,406

Note:

For convenience of calculation, the real terms figures do not take account of the minor variations to date included in the cash figures. The overall effect though is negligible i.e. the aggregate real terms figure of £39 billion is almost identical to the effect of simply stripping out compound inflation at 2.5 per cent. from the total cash figure of £59 billion.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list his Department's (a) current and (b) planned private finance initiative and public private partnership contracts by (i) total end of life debt owed by the state by final year of payment and (ii) annual state payment by year; and what the total comparative value is of the assets provided. (170540)

There are many hundreds of contracts negotiated annually between national health service bodies and private sector suppliers for a full range of services and equipment that involve elements of public private partnerships. These range from service contracts with private hospitals and social care placements to leases of equipment and private finance initiative contracts.

Of the three major areas of public private partnership contracts for which information is collected centrally—private finance initiative (PFI) schemes, NHS local improvement finance trusts (NHS LIFT) and independent treatment centres (ISTCs)—lists have been placed in the Library. For PFI and NHS LIFT the lists show only those schemes which have reached financial close as it is not possible to predict final capital values and annual payments on schemes which are still in the planning or procurement stages. The lists show the estimated capital value of each scheme (an approximation to asset value), where appropriate, as well as the annual unitary payment made by each NHS body to their private sector partner.

For ISTCs, the table shows the total contract value for Wave 1 schemes. The total contract value represents the estimated nominal value at the time of signing, calculated in accordance with an estimate of the inflation index as specified in each contract. Procurement of Phase 2 of the ISTC programme is ongoing and all contractual values remain commercial in confidence at this time.

In the case of the PFI schemes, under current accounting standards the facilities do not appear on the balance sheet of the NHS body during the life of the contract; and by the end of the contract all the debt raised by the private sector has been paid back. So although the facility will have a residual value when it reverts to the ownership of the NHS trust or primary care trust at the end of the contract, it will go on their balance sheets as an asset without an off-setting liability or ‘debt’.

In the case of NHS LIFT schemes the facilities also do not appear on the balance sheet of the NHS body during the life of the contract. However, the shorter contract lengths (typically 25 years compared with 30 or more in a PFI scheme) mean there is a small outstanding debt owed by the NHS LIFT project company at the end of the contract (i.e. their outstanding borrowings). In NHS LIFT this is a project company ‘risk’ in terms of recouping enough from the future use or disposal of the asset to meet this debt (known as ‘residual value risk’). The NHS body has an option to buy the facility or walk away from the contract, in which case the project company must look to sell the facility on the open market or lease it out again. So again, there is no ‘debt’ owed by the NHS body at the end of the contract.

In the case of the ISTCs, where the contract lengths are much shorter, many of the contracts involve a residual value payment to the contractor at the end of the term. This means that in this case the ‘residual value’ risk lies with the NHS (i.e. the risk here is that the theoretical residual value will exceed the actual market value that can be achieved). So there is a ‘debt’ owed by the NHS body at the end of the contract. Information on the ISTC contracts that involve residual value (RV) payments and the amounts in each case have also been placed in the Library.