Seven health PFIs to get bailout
Seven health trusts could be given access to government funding to help them pay for their PFI schemes, the Department of Health has announced.Read more
In Depth
The confidence trick
3 January 2012 - Partnerships Bulletin's industry confidence survey has exposed how much work the government must do to convince industry professionals that it is committed to infrastructure. Paul Jarvis reports Read more...
Studying the market
3 January 2012 - University accommodation PPPs have been booming over the past few years but increases in student fees may skew expansion post-2012, writes Colin Leopold Read more...
Whatever happened to localism?
3 January 2012 - David Cameron's flagship concept is in danger of being flushed away amid the economic crisis. But the idea might yet bear fruit, reports Paul Jarvis. Read more...
Don't look back in anger
3 January 2012 - After a tumultuous year for the partnerships industry, Rachel O'Rourke asks the industry what was good, and bad, about 2011 Read more...
Weighted down
6 November 2011 - The cheap cost of finance during PFI's boom time is dragging down liquidity at banks. Paul Jarvis asks what can be done, and what the higher cost of finance means for the future of private investment. Read more...
Home advantage
6 November 2011 - Playing by EU procurement rules hasn’t helped UK contractors at home. Can the government take a new approach with only a limited number of models at its disposal, asks Colin Leopold Read more...
Latest News
NOMS director joins Interserve
6 February 2012 - Interserve has beefed up its justice division with the appointment of a former National Offender Management Service (NOMS) operations director.Read more...
LEPs receive Growing Places cash
3 February 2012 - Thirty-eight local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) have received a share of the communities department’s £500m Growing Places fund.Read more...
New project finance head for Lloyds
3 February 2012 - Lloyds Bank has appointed a new global head of project finance, as Gershon Cohen moves to head up the organisation’s infrastructure funds business.Read more...
New PPP lobby group planned
2 February 2012 - A new body that will promote the partnerships industry in the UK is being developed, Partnerships Bulletin understands.Read more...
Milton Keynes cuts waste shortlist
1 February 2012 - Two firms have been chosen to battle it out for the Milton Keynes waste PPP scheme.Read more...
Greening unveils local transport plans
1 February 2012 - Local transport bodies will be able to make decisions on capital funding under proposals launched by Transport Secretary Justine Greening.Read more...
Two shortlisted for Welsh waste deal
31 January 2012 - Two companies have been shortlisted for the Heads of the Valleys waste PPP scheme in south Wales.Read more...



