[Mrs Anne Main in the Chair] — Backbench business — Private Finance Initiative
3:16 pm
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
Further to the point made by Dr Huppert, is it not a central claim made by the industry that part of the advantage is the management of construction risk? One of the issues, however, which my hon. Friend the Member for Hereford and South Herefordshire referred to, is the bundling of contracts. The construction risk and the design are bundled with the management service charge, and that drives some of the complexity, which drives some of the cost.