The PPP model has been used across a wide range of NI public services, providing new government accommodation, roads, water infrastructure, waste facilities, hospitals, schools, colleges and libraries. The table below illustrates the sectoral breakdown of PPP investment committed up to March 2008, and projections for schemes now in procurement. On existing schemes, three NI Executive departments - Regional Development (responsible for water and roads); Education; and Health, - have been the main commissioning authorities, accounting for over 90% of the capital value of contracts signed (the largest of which are highlighted in Box 1). Going forward, however, PPP in water and roads is diminishing (along with the environment, social development and enterprise sectors), while it continues to have a major role in education, health and finance and personnel.
NI Executive department | Actual value of schemes signed (£m) | Projected value of schemes in procurement (£m) | |
1. Social development | 26.5 | 0 | |
2. Regional development | 586.2 | 0 | |
3. Environment | 25 | 0 | |
4. Health | 167.05 | 1,087 | |
5. Finance and Personnel | 47 | 450 | |
6. Enterprise, Trade and Investment | 25 | 0 | |
7. Education | 344.6 | 309.6 | |
8. Employment and Learning | 62 | 88 | |
9. Culture, Arts and Leisure | 13.9 | 0 | |
Total | 1297.25 | 1,935 | |
Source: OFMDFM (2008)
Box 1 Signed PPP schemes worth more than £50 million in capital value Regional Development • a £118 million roads package, signed in February 2006. Total unitary charges to be paid on this scheme are £508.29 million between 2006/07 and 2035/36. • a further roads package with a capital value of £224 million, signed in December 2007. Total charges to be paid on this scheme are £1004.59 million between 2010/11 and 2037/38. • the £110 million Alpha water scheme for the NI Water Service, signed in May 2005. Total charges to be paid on this scheme are £506.86 million between 2008/09 - 2031/32. • the £122 million Omega water scheme for the NI Water Service, signed in March 2007. Total charges to be paid on this scheme are £640.14 million between 2007/08 - 31/32. Healthcare • a £98 million managed equipment PPP for the Belfast Health & Social Care Trust, which signed in May 2007. Total charges to on this are £132.93 million between 2006/07 and 2021/22. Education • the £104 million Classroom 2000 scheme for post-primary and special schools, signed in March 2003. Total unitary charges to be paid are £116.11 million between 2002/03 to 2010/11. • the £58.2 million Classroom 2000 network scheme, also signed in March 2003. Total unitary charges are £120.16 million between 2003/04 to 2011/12. Source: www.hm-treasury.gov.uk |