Declaration of Interests

Members made declarations of interests relevant to the inquiry as follows:

Lord Best

President, Local Government Association

Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach

Chairman Trillium, then Chairman Land Securities Trillium, 1998-2008, advisor to Telereal Trillium 1998

Advisor to International Finance Facility for Immunisation launched in 2006

Baroness Kingsmill

Until 2005, Chair of the Advisory Board of Laing O'Rourke

Lord Levene of Portsoken

Member, City of London Corporation

Lord Moonie

Role in an IT project related to Connecting for Health

Lord Vallance of Tummel

Member of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG

(Siemens Business Services signed a PPP with National Savings and Investments in 1999)

Full lists of Members' interests are recorded in the Lords Register of Interests: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldreg.htm