2.18 PFI investment has been used across the range of sectors. PFI transactions have been signed in over 20 different sectors, and by over a hundred different departments and local authorities. Chart 2.7 shows the largest users of mainstream PFI by value have been:
• the Department for Transport, which accounts for 22 per cent of projects by capital value. Large capital investment projects such as the M6 Toll Road (£485 million) account for the high value in this sector;
• the Department of Health, which has seen a total capital investment of £3.2 billion with 117 PFI projects signed to date;
• the Department for Education and Skills, with a total of 96 transactions worth a total capital value of £2 billion; and
• the Ministry of Defence, with 46 projects and a total value of £2.5 billion.