Name: PFI 協議隱藏的成本大公開！BBC 新聞 (The hidden costs of PFI deals | BBC News)
Uploaded: 2026-01-10T17:06:08.000Z
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Teenagers studying for their GCSEs in their coats, can't write, hands shaking, just, you can't hold the pencil properly.

準備考 GCSEs 的青少年們穿著外套，寫不出字來，手還在抖，就是拿不穩鉛筆。

I've been wearing like thermal layers underneath my shirt and underneath my trousers all the time, just to try and stop from like shivering in lessons, water pouring into a nursery classroom and a school swimming pool that's been out of use for years.

我整天都在衣服裡面、褲子裡面穿著發熱衣，就為了試著在課堂上不要發抖，水不斷湧進託兒所教室，還有一個已經閒置多年的學校游泳池。

I'm Brownwyn Jeffreys, the BBC's education editor and.

我是 Brownwyn Jeffreys，BBC 的教育編輯。

And they're just some of the issues I've come across as part of my investigation into decades long deals in which private companies maintain and repair schools.

這些是我調查數十年來，私人公司維護和修繕學校的合約時，遇到的一些問題。

They're called Private Finance Initiative or PFI contracts.

這些合約叫做「私人財政融資計畫」或 PFI 合約。

I've been looking into this for a couple of years now, hearing how one school had a contract so rigid it had to pay so so its grass was cut to less than 2.5 cm.

我已經研究這件事好幾年了，聽說有一所學校的合約非常死板，為了要割草到 2.5 公分以下，還得付一大筆錢。

And in another city, how schools held back cash for fear the private company could walk away, leaving repairs unfinished.

另一個城市的學校，則因為擔心私人公司可能會拍拍屁股走人，留下維修未完成，而不敢撥出現金。

So if the term PFI makes you want to switch off, I get it.

所以，如果 PFI 這個詞讓你聽了想關掉，我懂。

但這件事為什麼很重要，讓我來告訴你。

PFI has been used for decades to build and maintain schools, hospitals and even roads.

PFI 數十年來一直被用來建造和維護學校、醫院，甚至是道路。

They pay into the contract for repairs to be done and at the end they're meant to get back the buildings in a good condition.

他們支付合約費用來進行維修，合約結束時，學校應該能以良好狀態歸還。

It's absolutely wonderful to be here and have a wonderful, wonderful future.

能在這裡，擁有一個美好、美好的未來，真是太棒了。

At Lisbon Diversity School under Tony Blair's Labour government, there was a boom in these PFI deals being signed.

在Tony Blair的英國工黨政府時期，里斯本多元化學校簽訂了大量的PFI合約。

They were seen as a way of getting better hospital and school buildings.

當時人們認為這是獲得更好醫院和學校建築的方法。

The without having to put up so much public money up front.

而不需要預先投入大量的公共資金。

By 2018, there were growing concerns about value for public money and PFI was scrapped by the then Conservative government.

到了2018年，大家對公共資金的價值越來越擔憂，PFI也被當時的英國保守黨政府廢止了。

Schools account for the biggest number of these PFI contracts.

But when you take things like hospitals and roads into account as well, there are around 600 of them.

但如果把醫院和道路也算進去，大約有600個。

The real test is when it gets to the end of the contract.

真正的考驗是在合約結束的時候。

And around half of these contracts are going to reach that crunch point in the next 10 years.

而且大約有一半的合約會在接下來的十年內面臨這個關鍵時刻。

One of the biggest contracts covers 88 schools in Stoke on Trent.

其中一個最大的合約涵蓋了 Stoke on Trent 的 88 所學校。

It finished last October with repairs still not completed.

它在去年十月結束時，修繕工作仍未完成。

Then the private company went into liquidation, effectively shutting down.

然後那傢俬人公司就倒閉了，實際上是關門大吉。

That's left schools and the city council picking up the pieces and crucially the bill in different schools.

這讓學校和市議會不得不收拾殘局，更重要的是，還要支付不同學校的帳單。

I've heard about one problem after another.

A primary school with roof leaks months after work was done, no running water in a classroom reported.

一間小學在工程結束幾個月後屋頂漏水，據報有一間教室沒有自來水。

Again and again report repairs marked as completed before any work was done.

一次又一次地，維修報告顯示已完成，但實際上根本沒做任何工作。

The swimming pool at Trentham Academy has been out of use since 2022.

Trentham Academy 的游泳池自 2022 年以來就一直停用。

Local primary school children used to come and have their lessons here, but

以前當地的小學生都會來這裡上課，但是

despite major structural works, the school wasn't convinced it had been fully fixed.

儘管進行了大規模的結構工程，學校仍不確定是否已完全修好。

There are too many unknowns, too much missing information, and

有太多未知數、太多遺漏的資訊，而且

we also cannot have confidence in that because of the defects and the failures that we're seeing with some of the work that's being done.

我們也無法對此有信心，因為我們看到一些正在進行的工作存在缺陷和失敗。

Some told me it became much harder to make sure things were fixed in the last year of the contract.

有人告訴我，在合約的最後一年，要確保事情修好的難度變得大多了。

It became very obvious that in the last year or so there was no inclination to make any of the repairs that needed to be repaired.

顯而易見的是，在最後一年左右，根本沒有意願去修復任何需要修復的地方。

Last year, Stoke on Trent City council set aside 3.5 million pounds to put things right and has now told the BBC it held back a further £8 million.

去年，Stoke on Trent 市議會撥出了 350 萬英鎊來糾正問題，現在告訴 BBC，他們還額外預留了 800 萬英鎊。

I've been told that the total cost of repairs for Stoke on Trent schools could be anywhere between 24 and 30 million pounds.

我聽說 Stoke on Trent 學校的總維修費用可能在 2,400 萬到 3,000 萬英鎊之間。

Over the years, millions of pounds have been paid out in dividends by the private company.

多年來，這傢俬人公司已經支付了數百萬英鎊的股息。

The chief executive of the City Council, John Rowse, told me they shouldn't have been left to pick up the pieces.

市議會的首席執行官 John Rowse 告訴我，他們不應該被留下收拾殘局。

We would have preferred if those profits had been spent on Stoke on Trent schools.

我們寧願這些利潤能花在 Stoke on Trent 的學校上。

Now, clearly under a pfi, it is quite right that that provider should be able to make a profit and extract dividends, but

現在，很明顯，在 PFI 的情況下，提供者能夠獲利並提取股息是完全正確的，但是

they should also face up to the responsibilities that they've taken on.

他們也應該面對他們所承擔的責任。

The directors for transform schools, Stoke Ltd.

Transform Schools, Stoke Ltd. 的董事們。

The PFI company involved, didn't respond to our efforts to contact them.

參與其中的 PFI 公司沒有回應我們聯繫他們的努力。

Behind them is an investment company, Innisfree, which told us the schools in Stoke on Trent were covered by a commercial contract.

他們背後是一家投資公司 Innisfree，該公司告訴我們 Stoke on Trent 的學校受到商業合約的保障。

So why should you care about Stoke on Trent?

那麼，為什麼你要關心 Stoke on Trent 呢？

The worry is that similar issues are going to play out as hundreds of other people PFI contracts come to an end.

令人擔心的是，隨著數百份其他 PFI 合約即將到期，類似的問題也會發生。

They include vital public services in your communities.

這些合約包含了你社區裡重要的公共服務。

而且這不只是個歷史遺留問題。

The current government is looking at how private companies could be used to help build new NHS clinics.

現任政府正在考慮如何利用私人公司來協助興建新的 NHS 診所。