PFI
Scottish Futures Trust & Private Finance
Author / Creator: Dave Watson
Media type: Briefing
Date published: 2026
Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) is a government-owned company is exaimined in the context of renewed interest in private financing of public services.
It’s Scotland’s Water
Author / Creator: Scottish Trades Unions Congress
Media type: Report
Date published: 2026
The restructuring of Scottish Water has resulted in an incremental drift towards privatisation
Private profit doesn't make government more efficient
Author / Creator: Robin McAlpine
Media type: Article
Date published: 2025
For 50 years we've lived as if private profit is good for public services and it has led to the mass extraction of public wealth by corporate insiders.
Rethinking Private Financing of Scottish Public Projects
Author / Creator: Jubilee Scotland
Media type: Report
Date published: 2020
"Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) have, in all their forms, saddled the Scottish public sector with high levels of debt, poor service provision, lack of accountability and unsafe buildings. "
Public Private Partnerships: A formula for excess profits and failure
Author / Creator: Jim Cuthbert
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: April 2018
PFI is well known to be a very problematic concept. They involve extremely high rates of return for investors, but an unacceptable rate of failure in other schemes. These characteristics are inherent in the way PFI/PPP has been set up.