Bashyr Aziz replies

I accept that my assumptions about the likelycontent of the IPPR report were mistaken. As Gavin Kelly, research director of IPPR states, the report was critical of some aspects of thegovernment's approach towards PPP. That this was a surprise to many is evident, even inthe article from which Gavin quotes, where itsays: 'Although it was financed by firms like Norwich Union, KMG and Nomura which havea vested interest in the outcome, it is arefreshingly non-partisan document.' [myitalics].