Building Better Partnerships

Author: Commission on Public Private Partnerships
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Price: £12.95
Publication Date: 25 June 2001

The starting point for the work of the Commission was the need to renew support for universal, public funded services through improvements in their quality and responsiveness. The aim was to assess the appropriate contribution of PPPs in delivering this agenda.

Under the 1997-2001 Labour government PPPs have been the source of huge controversy: critics argue that they are little more than privatisation by stealth, while supporters maintain that PPPs are the key to the transformation of the UK's public services. This report cuts through the different economic and policy arguments around PPPs highlighting both the promise and the pitfalls of different models of partnership.