Senior officials have this week warned contractors against taking excessive profits from PFI schemes, according to national newspaper reports.
Sir Steve Robson, second permanent secretary at the Treasury, and Peter Gershon, head of the Office for Government Commerce, are understood to have told contractors that they risked "killing the goose that lays the golden egg".
The warning follows a critical National Audit Office report on the Fazakerley PFI prison scheme, completed by Carillion. This said the Prison Service only received £1m of the £30m gains made on the scheme.
