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Sturgeon: Ending hospital parking charges would cost tens of millions CONTRACTS that prevent all hospital patients in Scotland benefiting from free parking would cost "tens of millions" to terminate early, the health secretary said yesterday.

PPPs under fire again as parents claim new school will be too small CHILDREN will be forced to have lessons in makeshift classrooms because planned new schools are too small, parents claimed yesterday, in the latest blow to public-private partnership (PPP) schemes.

Firm ordered back to class as £7.6m school is built 'too small' A CONSTRUCTION firm has been ordered to return to work on a new £7.6 million primary school after it was built too small.

PFI works may cost £2bn more than with public cash THE use of private firms to build projects like schools and hospitals could be costing £2 billion more than it would in the public sector, a union claimed yesterday.

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Private funding boosts plans for eight new schools

Hospital PFI closure imminent

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