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NEW NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS APPOINTED

28/09/2004 Partnerships UK plc has today announced changes to the membership of its Board. Joining PUK as non-executive directors are David Clements, Nicolas Lethbridge and Christina McComb. Derek Higgs, Chairman of PUK said: “These appointments represent a further strengthening of our Board and increase the contribution that PUK can make to the public sector in developing, procuring and implementing the delivery of front line public services. “PUK is well positioned to move forward into the next phase of its business and to support the public sector across the complete spectrum of public private partnerships”. David Clements is a chartered civil engineer with 38 years experience including a wide range of PFI and PPP projects. Until recently he was a member of the WS Atkins Group Management Board. He was previously with Balfour Beatty Group and has served for a number of years as Chairman of the Business Services Association PFI Committee. Nicolas Lethbridge brings 30 years of international development and merchant banking experience, most recently with Babcock & Brown. During this period he was a leading project finance adviser in Europe on infrastructure financings for road, rail, PFI, IT and telecoms. Amongst previous positions he was a Director of Schroders for 5 years working on numerous privatisation and project financing assignments. Christina McComb is a member of the Shareholder Executive with experience in both the public and private sectors. Prior to joining the Shareholder Executive she spent 14 years with 3i Group plc. She will join PUK as a Treasury nominated non-executive Director. Sir Steve Robson will relinquish his Treasury nominee status but continue to serve as an independent non-executive Director on PUK’s board. Tim Stevenson has, this month, stepped down from the Board as a nonexecutive Director. NOTES TO EDITORS 1. Partnerships UK was launched on 13 June 2000 as a public private partnership to support the public sector and to accelerate the development, procurement, financing, implementation and management of private finance and public private partnerships projects and to promote the development and use of these types of projects more generally. 2. Partnerships UK is a plc in which private sector investors hold 51% of its share capital. HM Treasury holds 44.6% and the Scottish Executive 4.4%. 3. The Shareholder Executive was established in 2003 to professionalise the Government’s role as owner and shareholder in a number of public enterprises. The Shareholder Executive has assumed responsibility from HM Treasury for monitoring certain aspects of HM Treasury’s shareholder interest in PUK. 4. All Board appointments take effect in September 2004. 5. Press enquiries to Malcolm Graves on 020 7270 5161. Public enquiries to www.partnershipsuk.org.uk or 020 7273 8383.

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