2.2 When Carillion collapsed in January 2018, construction work on both sites stopped and the Trusts and the PFI companies worked together to maintain their respective hospital sites in a stable state. The Cabinet Office provided funding to the Official Receiver on both hospitals to physically secure the sites and retain key staff. The Trusts and the PFI companies:
• physically secured the sites;
• identified and retained key Carillion staff;
• identified potential replacement contractors;
• at Royal Liverpool University Hospital (Royal Liverpool), maintained services such as plumbing in the parts of the new hospital that had been completed to ensure infection control. This included turning the taps on and off each day;
• prepared schedules of work to ensure that building work could be re-started efficiently; and
• assessed the projects' finances and the costs to complete the hospitals.