¹Personal interview.

²Institute for Public Policy Research, A Learning Process: Public Private Partnerships in Education. London, 2000, p.4.

³Financial Times, Private Sector Education Projects Expand, Feb 14 2001.

⁴op. cit., 2000, p1.

⁵Ibid, p.9.

⁶Whitfield, Dexter. Public Services or Corporate Welfare: Rethinking the Nation State in the Global Economy, Pluto Press, 2001.

⁷IPPR Commission on Public Private Partnerships, Summary: Building Better Partnerships, June 2001, p.3.

⁸op. cit., p.3.

⁹Personal interview.

¹⁰Project Management Insight, The UK’s Private Finance Initiative – Making It Work. Infoser UK, March 2001.

¹¹Sussex, Jon. The Economics of the PFI in the NHS. The Office of Health Economics, April 2001.

¹²Building Better Partnerships, op. cit., p.2.

¹³National Audit Office.Examining the value for money of deals under the Private Finance Initiative, August 1999.

¹⁴Building Better Partnerships, op cit, p.5.

¹⁵National Audit Office. The refinancing of the Fazakerley PFI prison contract, June 2000.

¹⁶Op cit, p. 3.

¹⁷Ibid, p. 5.