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Jay Jayasundara

JJ (as he was often referred to during his time at Isle of Wight council) headed the team that designed the council’s 25 year long Roads PFI, in his role as PFI Programme Director.

He oversaw the whole process including the selection of the contract bidders.

He left Isle of Wight council a few months after the PFI contract was signed with Vinci, only days before the PFI was to start, on 1st April 2013.

15, July 2021·2 min read

Conservative-sanctioned cuts to PFI stopped what was initially promised from being delivered says Cllr

Cllr Jordan said it was important the Island knew what the cuts to the PFI contract actually meant, which he seemed to think was not the case

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10, June 2021·2 min read

Cuts of £32m to be made to PFI contract over 18 years

Isle of Wight council say savings have been achieved by reducing operational service standards, including the frequency and response times of horticultural services, street cleaning and removing obsolete highway assets no longer required

10, June 2021·4 min read

PFI consultant paid £730,000 to find savings in contract he designed dubbed ‘ironic’ by new Cabinet member (updated)

Cllr Jordan says regardless of costs and savings, the policy of using Jasmine Consulting again in relation to the highways PFI contract was deeply ironic

10, June 2021·3 min read

Payments to Island Roads withheld as milestone 14 over a year late

Milestone 14 is the final milestone in the Core Investment Period of the Highways PFI contract and is 15 months late

24, October 2019·2 min read

Isle of Wight council fails to detail impact of PFI cuts despite repeated requests

Isle of Wight council has cut £608,000 from the PFI contract so far, but have failed to provide exact details of what is being cut from where and what the impact will be

29, August 2019·2 min read

Did you know the PFI highways grant had 30 per cent chopped from it?

OnTheWight has dug back through the PFI archives to discover what the council said would be covered by the contract after the grant was cut by 30 per cent by the Government.

26, April 2019·1 min read

All five staff cut from IW CCTV control room: Their combined wages less than PFI axe man’s

The annual staff costs for CCTV Control Room staff is less than amount paid to PFI consultant for eight month's work.

25, April 2019·2 min read

Overflowing bins? The PFI service was ‘better than needed in some areas’, says Cllr Ward

Cllr Ian Ward has said the service level cuts to the PFI have happened due to the service being "better than needed in some areas".

23, April 2019·2 min read

Labour slam Isle of Wight council over PFI ‘savings’

The spokesperson for Island Labour says "Tories are calling cuts 'savings', as if that somehow reduces their impact".

17, April 2019·2 min read

Highways PFI savings could result in job losses, but not will not affect road resurfacing

The savings on the PFI contract could result in possible job losses but Island Roads say it's looking at redeployment and other avenues to keep any compulsory redundancies to a minimum.

14, March 2019·1 min read

How much has Jay Jayasundara ‘saved’ from PFI contract you asked – Here’s what we found out

He’s been paid an extra £95,000 for six months’ work to find areas to cut from the Highways PFI contract (he originally received a £180k+/year package to design), but just how much will he be saving the council, OnTheWight asked.

4, March 2019·2 min read

Consultant paid nearly £100,000 in six months to fix PFI contract he designed

The man who used to pull in £180+k/year while he was setting up the Isle of Wight roads PFI is back being paid by IWC and as well as being paid £95,000 for six months' work to fix the contract, his £750 per month rent is covered by IWC.

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