On 19 August, the Treasury select committee made a scathing attack on the private finance initiative, which has been widely used to fund and develop government building projects. It made its ...

Many private finance initiative projects are to remain, in effect, off the government’s balance sheet. The decision means that hospitals, clinics, schools, waste and local authority projects can ...

The UK has the EU's most extensive public finance initiative programme. According to pro-PFI lobbying group the PFI Forum, at March 1 this year 276 projects with a combined capital value of more than ...

Like many capital markets inventions, it’s a great idea in principle. The UK’s public finance initiative, a way of funding public expenditure with private capital, can finance complex and risky public ...

Owen Walker finds schemes are being put off investing in infrastructure due to the UK government’s unclear attitude to private finance initiatives (PFI) A survey carried out by schemeXpert.com and ...