Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 21 October 2014.
Daniel Poulter
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
11:30,
21 October 2014
There is nothing wrong with PFI schemes in principle; the point is the way in which they were put together by the previous Government. In 2011, Andy Burnham said:
“We made mistakes. I’m not defending every pen stroke of the PFI deals we signed”.
Those PFI contracts have damaged local hospitals and damaged local health care provision—
