The Wales Office has not initiated or approved any private finance initiative projects in the last three years.

Wales Departmental Private Finance Initiative

I am pleased the Welsh Office has not initiated

or approved the biggest ever PFI/PPP in Wales the St Athan Military Academy.

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Bob Spink (Castle Point, Conservative) | Hansard source

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what the (a) value and (b) start date was of each private finance initiative project approved by his Department in each of the last three financial years.

Paul Murphy (Secretary of State, Wales Office) | Hansard source

The Wales Office has not initiated or approved any private finance initiative projects in the last three years.

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2008-03-03a.190810.h&s=speaker%3A10454#g190810.r0

MP accuses government of cover up over St Athan

MP accuses government of cover up Wrekin MP Mark Pritchard has accused the government of covering up problems around the proposed Defence Training Acedemy in St Athan, Wales. The Wrekin MP challenged Wales Secretary Paul Murphy in the commons yesterday to give a “100 percent guarantee” that the project was safe. His intervention came after the Ministry of Defence’s decision to strip Metrix, the consortium which won the St Athan contract, of its preferred bidder status for running the second phase of the defence training shake-up....There are clearly infrastructure problems in delivering the remaining defence training package as well as the constant squabbling between the Welsh Assembly, local authorities and the MOD. The full article from the Shropshire Star can be viewed here. 29th Feb 2008