Private Finance Initiative

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 13 Mawrth 1997.

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Photo of Mr William Waldegrave Mr William Waldegrave , Bristol West 12:00, 13 Mawrth 1997

To be fair to the deputy leader of the Labour party, he claims to have invented the PFI. Unfortunately, however, he did not: he invented something very different. He just thinks that letting public authorities borrow is private finance. It is not; it contributes to the public sector borrowing requirement. That is the fundamental misunderstanding in the Labour party.