On 08/05/2010 18:58, Mizter T wrote:

On May 8, 6:47 pm, wrote:

On May 8, 6:41 pm, Mizter wrote:

The Northern line trains, Powerlink and Connect are all PFI contracts
- "PPP" solely refers to the infraco arrangements, UIVMM.

Indeed, but not everybody understands that.

Yes, fair point.

I think that politicos use have used the phrase "public private
partnership" in a wide variety of contexts, referring to all sorts of
things (e.g. hospitals), not least because it sounds warmer and rather
less harsh and thrustingly Thatcherite than "Private Finance
Initiative" does - however, UIVMM, in a strict sense (i.e. what was
actually written on the legal documents) PPP was only ever used in
relation to the LU infraco arrangements... or am I wrong?

I don't about terminology used within TfL/LU/HMG etc, but "PPP" is
certainly used generically worldwide for this kind of thing.

eg Turkey: http://www.ppp.org.tr/
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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK