Written question asked by Matthew Green (Liberal Democrat) on Wednesday, 16 March 2005, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 22 March 2005. It was answered by Keith Hill (Labour) on Tuesday, 22 March 2005 on behalf of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Question: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what estimate he has made of the costs incurred by (a) the London Borough of Camden and (b) his Department in the four years of preparatory development work on the Decent Homes Standard Private Finance Initiative in that authority.

Answer: Matthew Green: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what estimate he has made of the costs incurred by (a) the London borough of Camden and (b) his Department in the four years of preparatory development work on the Decent Homes Standard private finance initiative in that authority. [223286] Keith Hill: The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has made no estimate of these costs. The London borough of Camden estimated that it had spent £1.6 million on preparing for the housing private finance initiative (PFI) scheme for the Chalcots Estate in its press release on 23 February this year. We do not apportion costs to individual PFI casework.

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