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).

HM Treasury links

The Infrastructure Finance Unit
The Treasury has established TIFU, headed by Andy Rose, to consider applications for Treasury loans to PFI projects, negotiate the terms of any such loans and monitor and manage loans once made. TIFU will operate at arm’s length from procuring authorities and will be staffed by appropriate project finance professionals employed by Treasury. TIFU is establishing credit approval and loan monitoring processes comparable to those operated by commercial banks.

Minister with responsibility for PFI: Liam Byrne, Chief Secretary to the Treasury

Head of Private Finance Unit: Charles Lloyd

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.

Interim Chief Executive: Richard Buxton

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: 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
Community Health Partnerships
Community Health Partnerships (CHP) - known until autumn 2007 as Partnerships for Health (PfH) - is an independent company, wholly owned by the Department of Health. Its main activity has been to deliver the Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) Initiative which provides clean, modern, purpose-built premises for health and local authority services in England.

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.

Director of the Waste Infrastructure Delivery Programme: John Burns
Head of Project Development and Scrutiny, Waste Infrastructure Delivery Programme: John Enright

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.

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.

Head of the MOD Private Finance Unit: Andy Baker

Ministry of Defence links

Ministry of Defence PFU

Department for Communities and Local Government

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

In December 2008, the PFI delivery function of the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) was taken over by the Home and Communities Agency (HCA). DCLG's new role is to be responsible for strategy. to ensure that all major department projects comply with SOPC4 and other guidance, and to monitor and enforce good governance. DCLG will allocate PFI credits to Local authorities on the recommendation of HCA.

Communities and Local Governement links

Home and Communities Agency

Devolved Administrations

Scottish Executive Scottish Futures Trust: Chief Executive: Barry White
Welsh Assembly - PFI Section
Greater London Assembly
The Northern Ireland Executive
The Strategic Investment Board in Northern Ireland - Chief Executive: David Gavaghan