Appendix 1: acknowledgements

We are grateful to the many individuals within schools, LEAs and other organisations who generously gave their time for interviews and advice, and provided us with data and documentation. We are grateful to the following for carrying out work on our behalf:

- Sue Sanders worked closely with us on all aspects of the study and report development.

- Mike Clift, Martin Cook and Colin Ashford of the Building Research Establishment conducted the schools' technical assessment exercise.

- Jane Stevens and Juliet Brown of MORI conducted the user survey work. We are grateful to the Construction Industry Council (CIC) for permission to build on its questionnaire.

- Enterprise LSE produced a report to contribute towards the scoping phase of the study (Michael Bromwich, Tony Harrison, Tony Travers and Christine Whitehead, An Economic Analysis of PFI: a Pre-Scoping Paper).