SNP slam £500m-a-year PFI legacy
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THE SNP has slammed the “eye-watering” £500-million-a-year legacy of the private finance initiative (PFI) in Scotland.
PFI was launched over 30 years ago by John Major’s Tory government in a bid to move borrowing off government balance sheets to meet convergence criteria for joining the euro.
It was enthusiastically adopted under the new name of PPP (public-private partnerships) by Tony Blair’s Labour government, with councils and public bodies across the country being incentivised to use it since.
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