Thomas Docherty
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National Infrastructure Plan
Thomas Docherty Excerpts(11 years ago)
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Danny Alexander
My hon. Friend has played a very important role in scrutinising and making public many of the most appalling features of PFI under the previous regime, and I congratulate him on that work. As he will know, a few months back, we announced the new private finance 2 model, which strips out an awful lot of the things that he is concerned about. We are also engaged in a detailed cost review of PFI projects to try to make sure that, where we can, we reduce cost pressures, as we did successfully with the Romford hospital PFI.
Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife) (Lab)
Will the Chief Secretary to the Treasury say a little more about what will be the benefits for Scotland as a result of his announcement?