Rail, jails and NHS...its many projects

SCHOOLS

Carillion provides school dinners and cleaning services at 875 schools. It built around 150 schools. The most recent £1 million school-building contract was awarded in November after profit warnings.

HOSPITALS

The firm carries out maintenance work and manages facilities at hospitals, including 00 operating theatres and covering 11,800 beds. Its caterers make almost 19,000 patient meals a day.

RAIL

The company will do much of the main construction work for the controversial £56billion HS rail link from London to Birmingham. It is also a major contactor on Crossrail in London. It has contracts with Network Rail to upgrade track and power lines.

ROADS

It is building smart motorways for the Highways Agency to ease congestion by adjusting lanes or speed limits, and has other road and bridge building projects.

ARMED FORCES

Carillion maintains 50,000 army base homes for the Ministry of Defence. In July it signed a £158million contract to manage services such as catering at 33 military facilities.

PRISONS

It carries out maintenance and repairs at up to a half of the country’s prisons.

LIBRARIES

The firm manages a number of libraries in England.

ENERGY

It builds substations and puts up overhead cables for the National Grid.