Official figures show that, under Private Finance Initiative [PFI] schemes, British taxpayers are committed to pay £229 billion for new hospitals, schools and other projects with a capital value of just £56 billion.
The PFI deals include:
• A hospital which charged £52,000 for a job that cost £750. Demolishing a shelter for smokers resulted in the PFI contractor charging £2,600 a year for the “extra cleaning”.
• A hospital in Bromley, south London, which will cost the NHS £1.2 billion, more than 10 times what it is worth.
• An empty school which will cost taxpayers £370,000 a year until 2027. Another school had to pay £302 for a socket, five times the cost of the equipment it wanted to plug in.
More from the source: Private Finance Initiative: hospitals will bring taxpayers 60 years of pain - Telegraph
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Oh ffs, I thought there was such a thing as "unfair" contract terms?!?!
The PFI deals include:
• A hospital which charged £52,000 for a job that cost £750. Demolishing a shelter for smokers resulted in the PFI contractor charging £2,600 a year for the “extra cleaning”.
• A hospital in Bromley, south London, which will cost the NHS £1.2 billion, more than 10 times what it is worth.
• An empty school which will cost taxpayers £370,000 a year until 2027. Another school had to pay £302 for a socket, five times the cost of the equipment it wanted to plug in.
More from the source: Private Finance Initiative: hospitals will bring taxpayers 60 years of pain - Telegraph
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Oh ffs, I thought there was such a thing as "unfair" contract terms?!?!
Whoever told you that?
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