PFI

Rethinking Private Financing of Scottish Public Projects

Author / Creator: Jubilee Scotland

Media type: Report

Date published: 2020

"Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) have, in all their forms, saddled the Scottish public sector with high levels of debt, poor service provision, lack of accountability and unsafe buildings. "


Public Private Partnerships: A formula for excess profits and failure

Author / Creator: Jim Cuthbert

Media type: Policy Paper

Date published: April 2018

PFI is well known to be a very problematic concept. They involve extremely high rates of return for investors, but an unacceptable rate of failure in other schemes. These  characteristics are inherent in the way PFI/PPP has been set up.