Private finance for infrastructure
Published on:The aim of this National Audit Office report is to support public bodies as they consider how to finance new public infrastructure.
The aim of this National Audit Office report is to support public bodies as they consider how to finance new public infrastructure.
This investigation examines Greensill Capital’s involvement in the provision of two schemes to the NHS.
This investigation looks at the British Business Bank’s approval of Greensill Capital’s access to government business support schemes.
This report provides information on managing PFI contracts when they end and considers whether government is preparing for expiry appropriately.
Last updated – 28 May 2020 Introduction to the topic This online publication provides results of a survey we conducted with public sector authorities (authorities) and which forms part of the evidence base of the NAO’s report on Managing PFI assets and services as contracts end. This report provides information on how public authorities manage […]
Gareth Davies uses the NAO’s insights to outline what government needs to do to make public money work harder
Carillion going into liquidation left two new hospitals unfinished. The projects will now be completed with public finance.
A briefing on the rationale, costs and benefits of the Private Finance Initiative; the use of and impact of PFI, and ability to make savings from operational contracts; and the introduction of PF2. There are currently over 700 operational PFI and PF2 deals, with a capital value of around £60 billion and annual charges for these deals amounted to £10.3 billion in 2016-17. Even if no new deals are entered into, future charges which continue until the 2040s amount to £199 billion.
18 January 2018
This report looks at the set-up of the UK infrastructure Bank, including HM Treasury’s planning before launch.
The NAO makes C&AG Reports on audited accounts, Value for money (VFM) reports and other outputs available to the public. Wherever possible it provides an easy method of accessing this information.
The Treasury Committee asked the National Audit Office to undertake an analysis of the VFM assessment process and model for PFI. The assessment process combines a quantitative and qualitative approach to VFM appraisal. Our review focused, primarily, on the use of the financial model in the VFM assessment process and was submitted to the Treasury Committee as part of their inquiry into PF2.
The aim of this National Audit Office report is to support public bodies as they consider how to finance new public infrastructure.
A detailed account of all our work, our performance progress and the impact of our work in 2023-24.
Equity investors have helped to deliver many public sector infrastructure projects via the Private Finance Initiative and have managed them in ways from which the public sector can learn. Against a background of limited information, evidence gathered by the National Audit Office raises concern that the public sector is paying more than it should for equity investment.
On 15 January 2018, Carillion declared insolvency and the Official Receiver, an employee of the Insolvency Service, started to liquidate its assets and contracts. This report focuses on the role of the UK government in preparing for and managing the liquidation of Carillion.
Progress on the Government’s initiative to achieve £1.5 billion worth of savings from operational PFI contracts.
The Highways Agency’s PFI contract to widen the M25 could have been better value for money. The slowness with which it was taken forward resulted in higher financing costs, and the Agency was slow to investigate a potentially cheaper alternative to widening.
This paper has been prepared for the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee to support their inquiry on Private Finance.
Reports produced by the House of Commons’ Committee of Public Accounts (the PAC) following hearings based on our PFI and PPP investigations include nearly 1000 recommendations.
We have collected these recommendations and the related Treasury responses into a PFI and PPP/Privatisation Recommendations database last updated: 19/06/2009.
We have published this model to provide guidance to Departments on HMT’s and NAO’s expectations of how they should manage their programmes involving PPP and PFI projects.