Public Private Partnerships

Potential dangers of public sector investment in hub sub debt

Primary Author or Creator

Jim Cuthbert

Alternative Published Date

April 2017

Fast Facts

Jim Cuthbert analyses the potential dangers of Scottish Government investment in Hub sub-debt, which may act as a form of ‘concealed’ borrowing from the secondary market.

Public Private Partnerships: A formula for excess profits and failure

Primary Author or Creator

Jim CuthbertJim Cuthbert

Alternative Published Date

April 2018

Fast Facts

PFI, and other forms of public private partnership (PPP) as practised in England and Scotland, are well known to be very problematic concepts.