Department for Transport: Private Finance Initiative
(asked on 9th November 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department's definition is of private finance in relation to infrastructure projects.
This question was answered on 14th November 2018
Private finance is a way to deliver infrastructure projects in which the private sector invests equity and/or lends in order to facilitate the development, delivery, acquisition, and/or operation of a project, asset or entity with the expectation of earning a return on the investment commensurate with the risk.