Key facts

  £12.4bn - the estimated capital value of the hospitals and other healthcare facilities which have been built using PFI.

  8 - the number of companies which have equity stakes in 92% of all the PFI deals in the NHS.

  £80.8bn - the amount the NHS will pay to PFI companies over the course of the life of these contracts.

  £10.7bn - the amount of taxpayers' money which has been spent in the last six years for which data are available (2010 to 2015) on hospitals and other healthcare facilities built under the Private Finance Initiative.

  £831m - the amount in pre-tax profit which the PFI companies have made over the past 6 years and which has not been available for patient care.

  £973m - the estimated additional amount which would be available for patient care over the next 5 years if the NHS did not pay profits to PFI companies

  One quarter - the amount by which the total NHS hospital deficit would have been reduced over the past 6 years if these profits had not been paid by the NHS