{"id":38790,"date":"2017-09-27T08:33:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T07:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=38790"},"modified":"2017-09-27T10:04:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T09:04:11","slug":"who-delivered-the-greatest-proportion-of-pfi-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/09\/27\/who-delivered-the-greatest-proportion-of-pfi-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Who delivered the greatest proportion of PFI spending?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/4c52dde0-a2c1-11e7-9e4f-7f5e6a7c98a2?emailId=59caf1e36bc17500048d8d1f&amp;segmentId=2f40f9e8-c8d5-af4c-ecdd-78ad0b93926b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FT this morning,<\/a> from a useful article on PFI:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/09\/27\/who-delivered-the-greatest-proportion-of-pfi-spending\/screen-shot-2017-09-27-at-08-27-40\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38791\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-38791\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-27-at-08.27.40-550x397.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-27-at-08.27.40-550x397.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-27-at-08.27.40-416x300.png 416w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-27-at-08.27.40-768x554.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-27-at-08.27.40-554x400.png 554w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-27-at-08.27.40.png 2004w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The data is significant: what it shows is a PFI peak in 2000, which were all Conservative begun contracts. In absolute value 2007 was bigger, I admit, but as a proportion of spend the Tories, on whose watch this all began, were more wedded to PFI than Labour.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/09\/26\/cutting-the-cost-of-pfi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now it's time to clear up the mess<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the FT this morning, from a useful article on PFI: The data is significant: what it shows is a PFI peak in 2000, which<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/09\/27\/who-delivered-the-greatest-proportion-of-pfi-spending\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}