Initial decision-making

-  Establish an appropriate framework for assessing when an individual SG or SG programme may be justified, instead of waiting for a specific PPP project to require one;

-  Identify the precise issues that the SG intends to address;

-  Establish a framework for evaluating the risks to be covered by the SG;

-  Carry out a value for money analysis of the proposed SG (advisers may be needed);

-  Check that SGs are the right form of Government intervention (for example, by comparing them to investment grants, credit lines, tax breaks, insurance schemes);

-  Adopt a decision-making framework for the granting of SGs that will limit political interference;

-  Check that the SG does not alter the value for money of the PPP solution for the project.