Comments on: Find out the latest on your local PFI http://ukwin.org.uk/2009/04/27/find-out-the-latest-on-your-local-pfi/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:29:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shlomo http://ukwin.org.uk/2009/04/27/find-out-the-latest-on-your-local-pfi/comment-page-1/#comment-228 Shlomo Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:33:16 +0000 http://ukwin.org.uk/?p=1073#comment-228 from The Scottish Environmental Services Association (“SESA”) [The sectoral trade association for Scotland's managers of waste and secondary resources]: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S3/committees/finance/inquiries/capInvest/c_invest-SESA%20-%20RF.pdf "PFI was designed to deliver and maintain large-scale infrastructure rather than complicated long-term services contracts. The structure of PFI contracts has subsequently been ill-suited to the provision of long-term integrated waste management solutions. The additional complexity involved in delivering multiple facilities at different times providing a suite of activities is a further problem not addressed in standard PFI contracts. The provision of waste-specific derogations has helped to improve the flexibility associated with waste PFI contracts but more could be done in this regard." from The Scottish Environmental Services Association (“SESA”)
[The sectoral trade association for Scotland's managers of waste and secondary resources]:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S3/committees/finance/inquiries/capInvest/c_invest-SESA%20-%20RF.pdf

“PFI was designed to deliver and maintain large-scale infrastructure rather than complicated long-term services contracts. The structure of PFI contracts has subsequently been ill-suited to the provision of long-term integrated waste management solutions. The additional complexity involved in delivering multiple facilities at different times providing a suite of activities is a further problem not addressed in standard PFI contracts. The provision of waste-specific derogations has helped to improve the flexibility associated with waste PFI contracts but more could be done in this regard.”

]]> By: Keith Kondakor http://ukwin.org.uk/2009/04/27/find-out-the-latest-on-your-local-pfi/comment-page-1/#comment-169 Keith Kondakor Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:07:28 +0000 http://ukwin.org.uk/?p=1073#comment-169 The system seems to just work for the bankers and accountants The chair of the PRG works for Deloitte but decides on how our tax money is spent. Look at the minutes of commons committee:- http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmpubacc/332/332.pdf Q28 Mr Bacon: I would like to ask Mr McKechnie a question. You are Head of PFI Policy. I have always been slightly worried about the fact that the Head of PFI Policy in the Treasury always appears to be a secondee. I take it your predecessor, Mr Abadie, has gone back to PricewaterhouseCoopers, has he? Mr McKechnie: Yes, he has. Q29 Mr Bacon: And you are from Deloitte, is that right? Is your salary paid by Deloitte? Mr McKechnie: I am a partner of Deloitte and I am paid by them. Q30 Mr Bacon: You continue to be paid by Deloitte so your being inside the Treasury is not a burden on the public purse, so to speak? Mr Kingman: There is a contractual arrangement between us and Deloitte, as you would expect. I am surprised that you are surprised. From my point of view it is absolutely vital to have in the Treasury people who have done this and really know where the bodies are buried. Q31 Mr Bacon: It is just that the phrase “PFI policy” kind of suggests that it is being driven by outsiders. Mr Kingman: It is not driven by outsiders at all, but we do need to formulate policy in a way that is savvy. I honestly think this Committee would be the first to criticise us if we just had a bunch of bright young Treasury civil servants doing their best; we would be skinned alive. The system seems to just work for the bankers and accountants
The chair of the PRG works for Deloitte but decides on how our tax money is spent.

Look at the minutes of commons committee:-

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmpubacc/332/332.pdf

Q28 Mr Bacon: I would like to ask Mr McKechnie a
question. You are Head of PFI Policy. I have always
been slightly worried about the fact that the Head of
PFI Policy in the Treasury always appears to be a
secondee. I take it your predecessor, Mr Abadie, has
gone back to PricewaterhouseCoopers, has he?
Mr McKechnie: Yes, he has.
Q29 Mr Bacon: And you are from Deloitte, is that
right? Is your salary paid by Deloitte?
Mr McKechnie: I am a partner of Deloitte and I am
paid by them.
Q30 Mr Bacon: You continue to be paid by Deloitte
so your being inside the Treasury is not a burden on
the public purse, so to speak?
Mr Kingman: There is a contractual arrangement
between us and Deloitte, as you would expect. I am
surprised that you are surprised. From my point of
view it is absolutely vital to have in the Treasury
people who have done this and really know where
the bodies are buried.
Q31 Mr Bacon: It is just that the phrase “PFI policy”
kind of suggests that it is being driven by outsiders.
Mr Kingman: It is not driven by outsiders at all, but
we do need to formulate policy in a way that is savvy.
I honestly think this Committee would be the first to
criticise us if we just had a bunch of bright young
Treasury civil servants doing their best; we would be
skinned alive.

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