Departments: Private Finance Initiative

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

Mr. Byrne
Nil. All the Department's PFI deals are off balance sheet.

Stewart Hosie
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what value of annual private finance initiative payments by his Department was classified as (a) identifiable and (b) non-identifiable in each of the last five years, broken down by project.

Mr. Byrne
All payments made under PFI are identifiable. Prior to a PFI contract being signed the profile of unitary charge payments is agreed between the contractor and the public sector, subject to the operation of the payment mechanism.

Stewart Hosie
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what value of annual private finance initiative (PFI) payments was (a) to repay capital and (b) expenditure on other parts of each PFI contract in each of the last five years, broken down by project.

Mr. Byrne
The information requested could be provided only at disproportionate cost.