Private Finance initiative (PFI) contracts have been and will be with us for some considerable time but there’s an ever-increasing number of PFI contracts now set to expire.

Capita Local Government has been appointed by the Education Funding Agency (EFA) to carry out a national programme of school condition data collection assessments, in a three-year contract.

Hearing that we had achieved 98% overall satisfaction was probably the first time in my professional career where I have had an emotional response.

We applied our experience in managing large, complex applications to process planning for Lancaster University’s solar farm through to formal determination.

The UK is set to spend over £9bn this year on PFI contracts – and a total of £48bn in the next five years. This level of spending will continue until we see the first peak in contracts expiring around 2030. Expiry will see assets worth £14bn (their original capital value) transferring back to public ownership.