Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament 03 February 2011
03 Feb 2011 · S3 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Scottish Executive Question Time
M8
General Questions
Let me say first that we will not be in the business of building one motorway for the price of two, as has been done with hospitals in the past. There will not be the same excessive profits that have been produced in the past so, to that extent, the model is obviously not the same as PPP. Had the previous Administration been willing to look at alternative models, such as the trust model proposed by my council for new schools, we would perhaps not have seen the excessive profits that Andy Kerr was so keen on in the previous Administration.
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