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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
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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
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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 links

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

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

 
 
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