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    <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:04:35 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Tube bosses told how to save money]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Tube Lines, the remaining Tube PPP contractor, has drawn up a plan advising public sector bosses on how to cut costs in order to fill a funding gap that threatens the future of the London Underground work.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[£8.3bn PFI pipeline revealed]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Over 60 PFI projects worth £8.3bn will appoint a preferred partner in the next year and a half, according to figures released by the Treasury.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[New PPP agency unveiled]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A new agency that will take over from the 4ps and help local councils with their PPP projects has been unveiled.]]></description>
        <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[No PFI in latest Building Schools scheme]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[London's Wandsworth Council is launching its £300m Building Schools for the Future (BSF) scheme without any PFI element, it has emerged.]]></description>
        <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[TIFU budget not threatened, says Treasury]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The government's £2bn budget for helping out struggling PFI schemes remains intact, despite departments redirecting extra money set aside for that purpose, the Treasury says.
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        <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Councils fear waste finance drought]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The much-delayed waste PFI programme will slip even further unless the Treasury intervenes more to help deals struggling to raise private finance, a survey claims.]]></description>
        <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Minister guarantees Building Schools funds]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, has said an announcement will be made "in the next few weeks" about the running order for the second half of Building Schools for the Future (BSF).]]></description>
        <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[No green shoots for hospital project]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Birmingham’s major PFI hospital scheme has been delayed after struggling to cope with poor economic conditions and new accounting plans.
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        <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Bank retracts 'Olympic PPP' claim]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The European Investment Bank (EIB) has retracted a claim that a scheme to turn Olympics flats into social housing would be run as a public private partnership.]]></description>
        <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Darzi signals rethink on health PFI]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The PFI hospital programme could be brought to a halt as ministers look at "other, better" alternatives, Lord Darzi has said.]]></description>
        <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Housing PFI gets new boss]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Homes & Communities Agency has appointed a former member of Lend Lease's senior management team as its new head of private finance schemes.]]></description>
        <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[First Scottish Lift scheme to launch]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The first scheme to be delivered by the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) – a £60m health centre building project – will be launched shortly.]]></description>
        <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Lawyers win place on schools framework]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Some 17 law firms have been approved to give councils advice on their Building Schools for the Future (BSF) projects.]]></description>
        <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Future could be 'PFI-minus’, says agency]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The future success of the partnerships industry could depend on finding a "middle ground" between PFI schemes and design and build projects, according to James Stewart, the head of Partnerships UK.

 
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        <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[PFI must adapt to budget cuts, Stewart says]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[PFI schemes will not be exempt from the budget cuts set to hit public spending in two years' time, the head of Partnerships UK has warned.]]></description>
        <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
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