A One Day Conference

Monday 15th May 2006

DELIVERING THE SCOTTISH INFRASTRUCTURE

INVESTMENT PLAN THROUGH EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIPS
Caledonian Hilton, Edinburgh
Supported by

The 2005-06 to 2007-08 Spending Review committed the Scottish Government to a major increase in the level of capital spending
to improve Scotland's infrastructure. The commitment is to increase net investment by five per cent in real terms each year over this
period, providing an unprecedented investment in Scotland's infrastructure. The Infrastructure Investment Plan, published by the
Scottish Executive in February 2005, set out in detail the investment plans by Ministerial portfolio and the opportunity for the public
and private sectors to work in partnership to realise these plans.
This timely conference offers an opportunity for Government departments to provide an update on the implementation of the
Infrastructure Investment Plan as well as a platform for discussion of the latest developments in the areas of health, education,
transport, prisons, environment, social housing and regeneration. The conference will provide practical case studies, interactive
panel discussions, and valuable networking opportunities for members of the public and private sectors involved in developing and
improving Scotland's infrastructure.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
PUBLIC SECTOR
SPEAKER FACULTY

PRIVATE SECTOR
SPEAKER FACULTY

ORGANISED BY

Tom McCabe MSP

Minister for Finance and Public Service Reform

Richard Abadie
Mike Baxter
Riona Bell
Niall Gardiner
Mike Geraghty
Eileen Gill
Richard Grant
Bob Irvine
Norman Kinnear
Jim McCabe
Mike Neilson
Claire Phillips
Sandy Rosie
Alistair Watson

Head of Private Finance Unit, HM Treasury

Head of PFI, Scottish Executive
Director of Funding, Scottish Higher and Further Education
Team Leader, Transportation, Dundee City Council
Head of Service, Capital Funding Project, Argyll and Bute Council
Head of School Estates, Education Department, Scottish Executive
Head of SEPA Sponsorship & Waste Division, Scottish Executive
Head of Water Division, Environment and Rural Affairs Department, Scottish Executive
PFI Facilitator, Scottish Executive
Councillor, North Lanarkshire Council
Head of Housing and Regeneration Group, Development Department,
Scottish Executive
Project Director Scotland, Partnerships UK
Head of the Financial Partnerships Unit, Scottish Executive
Chair, Strathclyde Passenger Transport Authority

Jo Baker
Jennifer Ballantyne
Jeremy Barker
Andy Beauchamp
Phil Berczuk
Christopher Blunt
Paul Brewer
R. Craig Connal QC
Grant Hodges
Steve Lomas
Euan McVicar
Andy Milne
Louise Minford
Peter Reekie

Project Director, Mott MacDonald

Partner, McGrigors
Director, Project Finance, Lloyds TSB
Director of Operations, Connect Roads
Associate, Steer Davies Gleeve
Director, Deloitte
Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Partner, McGrigors
Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Director, Ambac Assurance UK
Partner, McGrigors
Chief Executive, Scottish Urban Regeneration Forum
Director, Head of UK PFI, Ambac Assurance
Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
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DELIVERING THE SCOTTISH INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT PLAN THROUGH EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIPS

ABOUT OUR SPONSORS

With offices in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Belfast, McGrigors provides a complete range of corporate legal services for an
extensive client base, including national and multi-national organisations in both the private and public sectors. The only law firm in the
UK able to practice in all three UK jurisdictions, McGrigors has the strength and depth to commit to multiple large, complex and
high-value transactions simultaneously, and has earned an enviable reputation for providing excellent commercially focused legal
services. The firm employs over 540 staff and so can bring a broad range of experience to bear on the projects it supports.
The firm's national Projects and Project Finance Team continues to advise on projects across a wide range of sectors, including
education, health, transport, waste management, power (including renewables and electricity infrastructure) clean and dirty water,
accommodation, street lighting, IT, social housing and urban regeneration. The team has advised on some of the most significant
infrastructure transactions in the UK in the last year.
In the last two years, the team advised on transactions with an aggregate value in excess of 3.4 billion. In the UK and Ireland, McGrigors
has maintained its ranking in the top five of all legal advisers advising on PPP projects, having to date acted on over 100 PPP projects
which have reached financial close across all sectors.

PricewaterhouseCoopers is the leading provider of financial, procurement, tax and accounting advisory services to the public and private
sectors on infrastructure delivery and PPP projects around the world.
Their experience in Scotland spans a wide range of sectors and major PPP transactions acting both for public sponsors and private
sector bidders. Completed transactions include Glasgow and Edinburgh Schools, the Glasgow Southern Orbital/M77 road project, Law
Hospital, Kilmarnock Prison and the Argyll & Bute Schools project, completed under a Non Profit Distributing Organisation structure.
Currently, PwC is advising on major projects in transport (e.g. Edinburgh Airport Rail Link and Edinburgh Tram), prisons (e.g. Addiewell
Prison), health (e.g. Fife and Forth Valley Acute Hospitals and Stracathro Treatment Centre), education (e.g. Edinburgh Schools PPP2
and South Ayrshire Schools) and housing (e.g. Glasgow 2nd Stage Transfers).
They provide advice from policy at the public/private interface through to transaction implementation as well as secondary equity market
and refinancing transactions.
For further information about how PwCs expert team can help you please visit www.pwc.com/igu.

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A One Day Conference

Monday 15th May 2006

THE PROGRAMME
08:30

Coffee and registration

09:00

Chairmans opening remarks

Paul Brewer, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
POLICY AND BACKGROUND

09:10

Keynote address
The Infrastructure Investment Plan one year on
Tom McCabe MSP, Minister for Finance and Public Service Reform

09:30

Overview of PPP policy developments

Sandy Rosie, Head of the Financial Partnerships Unit, Scottish Executive

10:00

Partnership delivery in Scotland

Claire Phillips, Project Director Scotland, Partnerships UK

10:30

Morning coffee
FINANCING UPDATE

10:50

Latest developments in financing

Richard Abadie, Head of Private Finance Unit, HM Treasury

11:10

Bank vs bond finance

Louise Minford, Director, Head of UK PFI, Ambac Assurance

11:30

Secondary market and refinancing developments in the infrastructure finance market

Euan McVicar, Partner, McGrigors

11:50

Q&A

12:00

Lunch
SECTORAL STREAMS
Stream A
Chairman: Paul Brewer, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
HEALTH

13:10

14:20
14:40

PASSENGER TRANSPORT

Latest developments in hospital programmes

Norman Kinnear, PFI Facilitator, Scottish Executive

Overview
Alistair Watson, Chair, Strathclyde Passenger Transport Authority

Case study
Putting primary care joint ventures into practice: the HUB Initiative
Mike Baxter, Head of PFI, Scottish Executive

Case study
Delivering Transport Solutions through Partnership Working in Dundee
Phil Berczuk, Associate, Steer Davies Gleeve
Niall Gardiner, Team Leader, Transportation, Dundee City Council

Panel discussion
Previous speakers plus
Peter Reekie, Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Panel discussion
Previous speakers plus
Jo Baker, Project Director, Mott MacDonald

Afternoon tea
ENVIRONMENT

EDUCATION

Overview of waste management

Richard Grant, Head of SEPA Sponsorship & Waste Division,
Scottish Executive

Overview of the sector

Eileen Gill, Head of School Estates, Education Department,
Scottish Executive

Partnership delivering environmental improvements

Jennifer Ballantyne, Partner, McGrigors

Bond funded projects

North Lanarkshire Schools vs Highland Project
Steve Lomas, Director, Ambac Assurance UK
Jim McCabe, Councillor, North Lanarkshire Council

Overview of water management

Bob Irvine, Head of Water Division, Environment and Rural Affairs
Department, Scottish Executive

Case study
Argyll & Bute
Mike Geraghty, Head of Service, Capital Funding,
Argyll and Bute Council

Waste case study plus panel discussion

Christopher Blunt, Director, Deloitte
Plus previous speakers

Panel discussion
Previous speakers plus
Riona Bell, Director of Funding, Scottish Higher and Further Education

ROADS

16:25

Overview of the sector

Jeremy Barker, Director, Project Finance, Lloyds TSB
Case study
M77 Extension and Glasgow Southern Orbital
Andy Beauchamp, Director of Operations, Connect Roads
Panel discussion
Previous speakers plus
Sandy Rosie, Head of the Financial Partnerships Unit,
Scottish Executive

17:30

Stream B
Chairman: R. Craig Connal QC, Partner, McGrigors

SOCIAL HOUSING AND REGENERATION

Overview of new policy on regeneration
Mike Neilson, Head of Housing and Regeneration Group,
Development Department, Scottish Executive
Bridging the gap between policy and delivery
Grant Hodges, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Panel discussion
Previous speakers plus
Andy Milne, Chief Executive, Scottish Urban Regeneration Forum

Close of conference

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