PART TWO Oversight and scrutiny of the contracts

2.1  This part of the report examines DfT's oversight of the PPP contracts. It considers:

■  DfT's risk management strategy;

■  the way that DfT relied on the oversight roles that other public sector bodies performed;

■  the way that DfT relied upon private sector mechanisms that were expected to incentivise successful performance; and

■  DfT's risk management after Metronet's problems