The Prime Minister is mistaken if he thinks the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) is the solution to public service reform, UNISON, the UK’s biggest union said today.
Responding to Mr Blair’s comments, UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis said:
“It is an extraordinary claim from the Prime Minister to link the future of public service reform with the Private Finance Initiative, as if there is no alternative way of improving our public services. This is nonsense.
“The government’s mistake of ‘absolutely fundamental historic importance’ has been to prevent the public sector from using other methods of procurement