PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Local Government: Public Private Partnerships (23 November 2016)

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the value of local authority debts accrued from public-private partnership developments since 2010 in (a) England and (b) Wiltshire.

Asked by:
Dr Andrew Murrison (Conservative)

The values of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) liabilities included in the Statement of Financial Position of the Whole of Government Accounts (WGA) are:

Financial year	English local authorities £m	Wiltshire Council £m
2014-15	11,985.3	51.7
2013-14	11,610.3	53.4
2012-13	10,850.9	37.1
2011-12	9,935.4	30.4
2010-11	8,930.1	31.0
2009-10	8,039.0	42.2

The most recent WGA is for the 2014-15 financial year and was published in May 2016. The 2015-16 WGA is currently being prepared and will be published in 2017.

Answered by:
Mr David Gauke (Independent)
1 December 2016