Private Finance Initiative (PFI) Data: UK Government Projects and Procurement Status

HM Treasury publishes data on all current Private Finance Initiative (PFI) projects annually. The information is provided by the procuring departments and Devolved Administrations and includes projects reaching financial close between April 2012 and March 2013, as well as projects in procurement as of March 2013. Business case approval trackers for legacy PFI and new PF2 projects are also published to provide procurement status updates.

Use Cases

• Analyze the timeline and status of PFI projects based on financial close and procurement dates mentioned in the description.
• Track government approval processes for public-private partnerships based on the published business case approval trackers.
• Study the evolution of PFI projects into the PF2 framework based on the policy document and status updates referenced.

Strengths

• Data is published annually by HM Treasury, a central government authority.
• Includes a specific temporal subset for projects reaching financial close between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013.
• Provides business case approval trackers in response to calls for greater transparency.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The data is provided by departments and is not audited by HM Treasury.

Provenance

Source

HM Treasury

Collection Method

Information provided by the departments and Devolved Administrations that procured or sponsored the projects.

Time Range

Includes projects with financial close between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013, and procurement status as of 31 March 2013.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:19.833842; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom (including Devolved Administrations)