Very few changes have been withdrawn or cancelled

2.1  Overall, only 8 per cent of change requests considered by authorities' contract management teams were not taken forward. In general, public sector authorities have been able to make the operational changes to PFI contracts they required. Decisions not to proceed with changes have reflected the estimated cost of the change, but more often related to internal decisions about the need for the change or an assessment that the request was already covered under the existing contract or provided elsewhere.