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Government Links

HM Treasury

HM Treasury is the government department responsible for setting and implementing policy on Public Private Partnerships (PPP), in particular the Private Finance Initiative (PFI).

Minister with responsibility for PFI: Angela Eagle MP, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury

Head of Private Finance Unit: Gordon McKechnie

Partnerships UK

PUK was established by the Treasury as a PPP to work principally with public bodies to develop and procure their PPP projects.

Chief Executive: James Stewart

4Ps

The Public Private Partnerships Programme (4Ps) was established as the local government procurement expert, providing advice, guidance and skills development to local authorities undertaking projects, procurement and partnerships. This includes private finance initiative (PFI) schemes, strategic service partnerships and all other forms of partnership working.

Executive Director: Chris Wilson

Departments & Agencies

Department for Children, Schools and Families

The Department for Children, Schools and Families (formerly the DfES), through its Schools Capital and Buildings Unit, has undertaken an extensive programme of school building improvement through its Schools PFI Unit. More recently the government announced its intention to overhaul the entire secondary school estate through a programme known as Building Schools for the Future.

Head of Schools Capital and Buildings: Sally Brooks

Education links

Schools Capital
Private Finance Initiative
Buildings Schools for the Future
Partnerships for Schools
Partnerships for Schools is a new body, jointly managed by the DfES, PUK and with the participation of 4ps, to co-ordinate the national delivery of the Building Schools for the Future programme and provide support for LEAs.

Chief Executive: Tim Byles

Department of Health

The Department of Health has a rolling programme of investment in new hospital buildings funded, in part, through the Private Finance Initiative. Additionally a significant programme of investment in primary care and community-based facilities is also in operation. Called NHS LIFT (NHS Local Improvement Finance Trust) it seeks to modernise GP practices and one-stop primary care centres.

Deputy Director of Finance – Investment: Peter Coates

Health links

Private Finance Initiative
Estates and facilities management
Partnerships for Health
Partnerships for Health, jointly owned by PUK and the Department of Health, was established to deliver NHS LIFT as a new mechanism for the delivery of capital investment in primary care services.

Chief Executive: Dr Sue O'Connell

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The department has on-going programme of waste PFI projects. Schemes supported by the department are focused on recycling-led and sustainable solutions that fit with current government objectives.

Head of Funding and Scrutiny Team: Ron Bates

Department for Transport

Head of Private Finance Unit: Colin Goodwillie

Transport links

Highways Agency
As part of its work The Highways Agency oversees the DBFO Roads Programme (design, build, finance and operate). Using PFI procurement the agency has delivered a number of key road infrastructure projects.

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

The department has responsibility for local authority library, leisure and sport projects.

Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice links

HM Prison Service
Further information on privately managed prisons.

HM Courts Service
HMCS uses Public Private Partnerships and the Private Finance Initiative as a major element of its investment plans for improved court facilities and services.

Head of PPP Unit: Stan Coats

Ministry of Defence

On 1 November 2004 the Ministry of Defence established a dedicated Private Finance Unit. The Unit brings together the existing private finance units in the Directorate of Broadening Smart Acquisition (DBSA), the Defence Procurement Agency (DPA) and the Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO) into a new centralised PFU covering the whole of the MOD.

Director, MOD PFU: Danny Daniels

Ministry of Defence links

Ministry of Defence PFU

Department for Communities and Local Government

This department, formerly the ODPM, has responsibility for overseeing many local authority PFI/PPP projects, particularly in the areas of social housing, fire services and local authority accommodation.

Devolved Administrations

Scottish Executive - Head of Financial Partnerships Unit: Sandy Rosie
Welsh Assembly - PFI Section
Greater London Assembly
The Northern Ireland Executive
The Strategic Investment Board in Northern Ireland - Chief Executive: David Gavaghan