Author: Shirley James

Privately financed infrastructure investment

So put simply, they are all just ways in which the Scottish Government has been able to use private sector money in order to build public assets such as schools, hospitals and roads. 
So far, around nine billion pound of public sector infrastructure has been secured through private finance. 
Without the use of these types of contracts that would be a lot less public sector infrastructure.
What isn't clear, however, is how the Scottish Government decides when they will use these contracts and that can make it difficult to ascertain whether these represent value for money.