S2O-11504 - Colin Fox (Lothians) (SSP) : To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will review its policy on PFI projects, in light of the findings by Edinburgh University¿s Centre for International Public Health that payments from NHS boards across Scotland to private financiers will increase from the current £107 million to £510 million per year by 2011.
Answered by Mr Tom McCabe (21 December 2006): Public Private Partnerships are an important part of the Executive’s mixed economy approach to the modernisation and investment agenda to grow the Scottish economy and provide better public services.
Payments by public bodies to private sector PPP consortia are for services provided over the length of the contract - these include capital construction, lifecycle maintenance and facilities management, and not just the upfront construction cost of the asset. I do not recognise the £510 million figure to which you refer.
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I have been saying it before NEW Labour came to power the NHS is going to be Privatized all that is being done is to convince people that it is too big to handle and the only thing that can be done to make it work is Privatisation.
PPP/PFI is just one of the things being done to make people believe all this.Playing on people`s fear at the end of the day.
The chutzpah of NEW Labour is astounding.
"In the course of the election campaign the Labour Party accused the Conservatives of wanting to privatize the NHS. Yet within two weeks of being re-elected, what happens? The new secretary of state for health, Patricia Hewitt, declared that 1.7 million operations were now to be provided by the private sector."
Also there is money to made for some while this is all being done PPP/PFI = RIP OFF.
Of course the Privatisation of the NHS is not the only thing Blair and his small bunch of self serving right wingers going to make money off. To do this is childs play to them after taken the Labour party off us the people and Privatising it with them being the only share holders.
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