3.1.1 Remit Item 1 asked the Inquiry to consider the decision by the Council to use the Public Private Partnership ("PPP") methodology and whether this procurement methodology had an impact on the level of defective construction discovered in the PPP1 schools.
3.1.2 In 1998, when the project was first being considered, there was a pressing need to address the condition, configuration, efficiency and capacity of the school estate in Edinburgh, which had suffered from a lack of investment in both maintenance and new infrastructure. Action to address these problems could not have been reasonably delayed for any significant period, other than to the detriment of the educational achievement of school-children in Edinburgh.