4.8 Long Term Capital Projects
and PFI
4.8a Could the Department provide a table
showing all publicly funded capital projects with a total cost
above £10 million which are under construction during 2001-02?
Could this also show the original and current estimated completion
dates along with a percentage figure for any additional time overrun/saving?
Likewise, the original total cost and current estimated out-turn
cost should be provided along with a percentage cost performance
figure.
Could the Department provide a commentary
on cases where there are significant discrepancies between original
estimates of completion dates and/or expenditures and current
estimates?
4.8b Could the Department provide details
of PFI projects with a capital value of £10 million or over
approved since 1992, including their current status?
4.8c Could the Department provide tables
showing the planned and actual annual contribution to capital
from PFI, and the forecast level of investment generated by schemes
over £10m plus an aggregate of those below £10 million,
since 1997-98? What revenue or transitional support is being given
to support the scheme? Could the Department provide further details
of locally agreed arrangements to provide revenue or transitional
support to schemes?
4.8d Could the Department provide a table
showing the increases to the capital cost of schemes since the
last expenditure questionnaire and provide a commentary on changes
of more than 10 per cent? In addition, could the Department provide
the initial costs of PFI schemes at outline business case (baseline
year) for those schemes reported in last year's questionnaire
and comment on increases?
4.8e Could the Department provide data
on the revenue consequences of schemes which have reached financial
close and represent long term contractual commitment over the
next 25 years? Could the Department provide an update of the Departmental
Report table showing the source and applications of HCHS capital,
giving the outturn position for 2000-01?
4.8f For major projects (currently defined
as those greater than £25 million in value), could the Department
please provide a comparison between the PFI price and the publicly
financed option. The publicly financed comparator's costings should
be broken down as follows:
Basic construction contract, broken down
between pre-implementation and post implementation costs;
The value of risk adjustment, again broken
down between pre-implementation and post implementation costs,
in both pounds and percentage terms, and
The final total real full life cost of both
options.
Where adjustments have been made to the PFI
costs (to bring prices to a like for like basis), these should
be broken down on the same basis as the publicly funded option.
Could the Department also provide a brief
commentary on any apparent differences between the reported schemes.
4.8g Could the Department update the
information given in Table 4.8g on donated capital additions by
region only?
4.8h Could the Department list, by scheme,
how much has been spent on developing business cases for a sample
of schemes worth over £1 million, identifying which schemes
are publicly financed and which financed through the PFI? Where
schemes have reached completion, could the estimated development
costs be compared with actual costs?
4.8i Could the Department detail for
every NHS trust with a hospital development, whether publicly
or privately financed, worth over £25 million (i) the number
of NHS bedsgeneral and acutecurrently provided by
the trust and (ii) the number of NHS bedsgeneral and acuteto
be provided when the development is completed?
4.8j For each PFI scheme could the Department
provide the estimates of the unitary fee and split between the
availability and facilities management fee at outline business
case (baseline year) and the actual cost of the unitary fee split
as above on signing off the FBC? Could the Department comment
on how any increases were funded?
4.8k For each PFI scheme signed or given
approval in principle, could the Department provide income and
capital charges of Trusts which make up each PFI scheme prior
to signing and income, availability fee and capital charges on
retained estate for each scheme having signed, or estimates for
those schemes which have not yet signed?
4.8a Could the Department provide a table
showing all publicly funded capital projects with a total cost
above £10 million which are under construction during 2001-02?
Could this also show the original and current estimated completion
dates along with a percentage figure for any additional time overrun/saving?
Likewise, the original total cost and current estimated out-turn
cost should be provided along with a percentage cost performance
figure.
Could the Department provide a commentary
on cases where there are significant discrepancies between original
estimates of completion dates and/or expenditures and current
estimates?
1. Table 4.8.1 provides details of all publicly
funded long term capital projects with a total cost of over £10
million which are forecast to be under construction during 2001-02.
Table 4.8.1
PUBLICLY FUNDED CAPITAL PROJECTS WITH A TOTAL
COST OVER £10 MILLION WHICH ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION DURING
2001-2002

Notes
1. Publicly-funded element of main PFI scheme.
2. Due to extended Briefing of major Pharmacy
package.
3. Anticipated FBC.
4. This excludes the Bradwell developments
which are awaiting a decision on the Elderly Care Strategy for
North Staffordshire.
5. Assumes EEC negotiated exemption on tendering.
6. Anticipated to Start in 2001-02.
7. Outline Business Case not yet approved
by Trent Regional Office.
8. Full Business Case not yet approved by
Trent Regional Office.
COMMENTARY FOR
PROJECTS WITH
SIGNIFICANT DISCREPANCIES
BETWEEN ORIGINAL
AND CURRENT
ESTIMATE INFORMATION.
Newcastle Strategic Review (NSR)Enabling
Schemes
2. This scheme consists of fifteen various work
packages. The largest single package, which constitutes 43 per
cent of the total cost, is for the provision of a major Pharmacy
at the Royal Victoria Infirmary site. An extended briefing process
for the Pharmacy package has caused a delay in the overall programme.
Bath Redevelopment.
3. The delay to the programme is due to
an expansion in the scheme to take advantage of the Accident and
Emergency modernisation fund. (The remaining stage of this redevelopment
scheme is principally A&E.) This has had the effect of extending
the boundaries of the original brief. As a result the scheme will
need to be undertaken in phases causing the delay in programme.
Edgware Community Hospital
4. The time overrun reported is in the planning/design
stage as the project is currently being prepared for tender. The
design team had been asked to review costs to ensure that the
project can be delivered within budget. The additional cost of
8.8 per cent against FBC has been identified as part of this process
and has been approved by the Capital Review Group.
5. The current timetable indicates a start
on site during October 2001 and completion at the end of 2003.
Guy's and St Thomas's
6. The Rationalisation of Services over
the Guy's site and the St Thomas' site is partly publicly funded
and partly funded by Guy's and St Thomas' Charitable Foundation,
the £50m cost identified in the table being the public element.
As a result of an injection of further charitable funding, the
originally envisaged cancer services have been significantly improved.
The scheme is currently in the process of redesign, and this has
led to the delay.
4.8b Could the Department provide details
of PFI projects with a capital value of £10 million or over
approved since 1992, including their current status?
7. All projects with a capital value of
£10m or over are shown on the tables in answer to 4.8c.
4.8c Could the Department provide tables
showing the planned and actual annual contribution to capital
from PFI, and the forecast level of investment generated by schemes
over £10m plus an aggregate of those below £10m, since
1997-98? What revenue or transitional support is being given to
support the scheme? Could the Department provide further details
of locally agreed arrangements to provide revenue or transitional
support to schemes?
The response to the first question is provided
in the attached tables. The second two questions regarding revenue
support for schemes are answered after the tables.