Well, that's pretty good news in the sense that the capability may appear but all of the previous comments appear to remain valid. However, there's some good news about PFI - when they don't work, you can buy them out - as El Ken's Transport for London did a week or so ago:
http://www.transportbriefing.co.uk/story.php?id=4792
So there's some hope that we can bring them in house.... maybe....
S41