Scotland is leading the way on TIF, but is England's approach superior?
The Budget last month means that tax increment financing (TIF) pilots in England are closer to becoming a reality. Euan Murray compares the English TIF approach to Scotland's, which has forged ahead with its own projects.Since the creation of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, Scotland and England have often taken slightly different approaches in relation to the way they progress…
Hub announcement
The Scottish Government recently revealed the two pathfinder territories for the hub initiative through which it aims to bring together local authorities, health boards and other public bodies within a locality to procure community-based infrastructure. South East Scotland will lead the way, followed by the North of Scotland. Both have received Scottish Government funding towar…
Effect of the implementation of the EU Remedies Directive (EURD) on Procurement Clients
You may know that a new Directive has been adopted that affects the way in which parties can seek redress in the case of breaches of procurement rules. The following is a brief summary of the effect of the EURD on your procurement operations, and sets out those areas on which the Scottish Government is consulting before being transposed into Scots law by 20 December 2009 at the…
The Scottish Futures Trust
On Tuesday 20 May the Scottish Government announced its way forward for infrastructure investment in Scotland in the form of the Scottish Futures Trust (the "SFT"). The Scottish Government has touted the SFT as being a replacement to the "wasteful PFI". The public sector may have been hoping for announcements of funding with the private sector hoping for a pipeline of project…
The NPD model, the SFT and the Competitive Dialogue
The NPD model There is a general acceptance of the NPD model in principle. From a local authority perspective, the capping of private sector equity returns is a positive move. Questions were asked about the surpluses generated by the NPD model and the suitability of the charity as a vehicle for spending those surpluses. The surpluses forecast under the NPD mod…
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