On 1 May 2009, at 10:06, Nigel Stanley wrote:

> 2009/4/30  <[email protected]>:
>> What makes you think don't becoming a voluntary sector  
>> organisation would give BW any more latitude to borrow than now?
>>
>> Steve
>> Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange
>>
>
> This is what I understand.
>
> At the moment anything BW borrows shows up on the public sector
> overall accounts as debt. It therefore needs Treasury permission to
> borrow (which is not easy to get)
>
> If it were an independent body - even one that got lots of government
> grant -  its debts would not be on the public sector balance sheet.

Ah yes.  Just like the PFI initiative.  Magic.

Baz

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