Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many private finance initiative projects his Department contracted for in each year from 1997 to 2010.

The Department and its agencies contracted for the following number of projects each year (excluding years when no projects were contracted for):

1998 – 2 projects (National Physical Laboratory and the Elgar contract)

2007 – 1 project (Insolvency Service Infrastructure contract)

This covers the following administrative departments: Department for Trade and Industries, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.