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Dexter Whitfield recommends that Holyrood stops all MIM projects

February 11, 2020 By Jubilee Scotland Leave a Comment

We are so grateful that we were able to have Dexter Whitfield with us last month at the launch of our report, ‘Rethinking Private Financing’. The influence of his research can be seen all throughout it so it is an honour to be able to have one of the leading experts of this area come […]

Questioning the Scottish government’s approach to Private Finance

February 10, 2020 By Jubilee Scotland Leave a Comment

questions for holyrood

The launch of our report Last month at the Scottish Parliament we launched our report ‘Rethinking Private Financing’, the culmination of work from Jubilee Scotland over the past year researching PPP & PFI schemes. You can download and read it here. The launch was hosted by Neil Findlay MSP, who spoke to us about how […]

Our Report for change – Rethinking Private Financing of Scottish Public Projects

January 22, 2020 By Jubilee Scotland Leave a Comment

In the midst of a windy day on the 29th of January 2016, the side of Oxgangs School in Edinburgh collapsed. A large section of the gable wall came crashing down with nine tonnes of bricks falling across the path below. An independent report concluded that it was “a matter of timing and luck” that […]

Harvesting debt: the failures of NPDs

March 20, 2017 By Jubilee Scotland Leave a Comment

This article is written by Emma Saunders for Jubilee Scotland. It is an introduction to her thesis ‘Harvesting Debt: Hub South-East Scotland, Austerity and Public Procurement’ which explores the topic further. Emma was studying MSc by Research in Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh and has since completed this.  ————————————————————————————————————————————— On the 21st of November, two weeks […]

‘The SNP abolished PFI, or did they?’

January 27, 2017 By Jubilee Scotland 4 Comments

This article was written by Dr Scott Arthur. In 2006 Alex Salmond told Scotland that “PFI was a quick fix and a costly mistake”. If elected (he was), he was going to ensure  “our public assets can be held in trust for the nation all without the unnecessary private profit that is part and parcel of […]

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Jubilee Scotland and Global Justice Now Protest in the Heart of Edinburgh

Jubilee Scotland and Global Justice Now joined forces last week to ask BlackRock to cancel or suspend debts between them and Zambia as the country struggles to fund healthcare and education for the Zambian people whilst BlackRock are set to make 110% profit.  The two organisations came together to create a BlackRock pinata that was […]

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