Question follow-through · 99179
NHS: Private Finance Initiative
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of renegotiating current private finance debt to reduce future payouts.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 11 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 18 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of renegotiating current private finance debt to reduce future payouts.
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Dec 2025
Answer published
Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contracts are not held by the Department. Contracts are held between the local National Health Service trust and their respective private finance company. The contracts were let for a prescribed period of time, with the te...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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