The information available on many buyouts and terminations in the 1990 and 2000 decades is limited because details of unitary payments and public cost of terminations were not publicly available. The situation is further complicated by HM Treasury PFI statistics, which exclude buyout, terminated and concluded contracts from the annual listing of current projects, although they are briefly stated in the annual summary report. The UK government stopped use of PFI for ICT projects in July 2003.
The transaction costs of buyouts and terminations are often not reported, so it is difficult to determine whether they are included or excluded. Exceptions include the £1.0m transaction cost included in the Hexham Hospital buyout (see Table 4) and the Dyfed-Powys Police buyout of the Ammanford Police Station, Wales PFI project. The Police Commissioner stated it "…took around two years and cost around £160,000 in professional fees - but we save more than £3m against the PFI deal and that's good news for our communities" (Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner, 2015).