Public Private Partnerships
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.
Scotland Against Public Private Partnerships: Briefing Paper on the Use of Tax Havens by Hub and PPP Project Companies
Author / Creator: Dexter Whitfield
Media type: Briefing Paper
Date published: 2023
Recent and new research on tax haven involvement in the Hub companies and PPP project companies.
Shameless PPProfiteering in Scotland; making money from hospital parking during the Covid-19 pandemic
Author / Creator: Line Kikkenborg Christensen
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
PPP contracts can limit a government’s ability to implement initiatives in the best interest of the public
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. "
Potential dangers of public sector investment in hub sub debt
Author / Creator: Jim Cuthbert
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: April 2017
An analysis of the potential dangers of Scottish Government investment in Hub sub-debt, which may act as a form of ‘concealed’ borrowing from the secondary market.
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.