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Lighthouse | What should the ‘day one’ infrastructure priorities be for the next parliament?

andybolton1 — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 02:00:17 +0000

A General Election is due before late January 2025. The next British government will have to focus minds and accelerate net zero delivery through decisive leadership and bold decision making. In the recent Budget, chancellor Jeremy Hunt confirmed that the next Spending Review will take…

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Chancellor speaks at ICE event for MPs

Andy Bolton — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 02:30:09 +0000

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt was the keynote speaker at an evening reception hosted by the ICE and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Infrastructure (APPGI).

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Interview | NIC’s Sadie Morgan on the strategic approach needed to meet national ambitions

Gavin Pearson — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 02:00:26 +0000

Sadie Morgan is one of three members of the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) to have been involved since it was founded in 2015.

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ICE issues Enabling Better Infrastructure guidance update

Andy Bolton — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 02:30:54 +0000

The ICE-convened Enabling Better Infrastructure (EBI) programme has launched updated guidance for governments to help them plan infrastructure spending.

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Trustee’s View | Election year is an opportunity to influence

Andy Bolton — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 02:00:38 +0000

The prime minister recently announced that his “working assumption” is that there will be a General Election in the second half of the year. This reinforced his briefings at the end of last year that 2024 would indeed be an election year. It also…

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New guide to help boost productivity

Andy Bolton — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 02:15:31 +0000

A new guide providing practical advice for boosting productivity across the infrastructure lifecycle, has been published by the ICE.

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Spotlight | Maximising benefits for the North

Andy Bolton — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 02:00:06 +0000

The UK’s infrastructure industry might be forgiven for being downhearted as we come into the New Year. Confidence in major project and programme delivery is at, what feels like, an all time low. The cancellation of Phase 2 of High Speed 2 (HS2) is a…

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Editor’s Comment | Seeds of a busy future despite bruising end to 2023

Gavin Pearson — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 02:00:06 +0000

The final months of 2023 have been tough for our sector. The cost-driven cancellation of High Speed 2 north of Birmingham was not a complete surprise by the time the government stopped hinting and finally announced it. But it was still a shock and led…

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Lighthouse | The second National Infrastructure Assessment is published – now what?

Andy Bolton — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 02:45:46 +0000

It has been an eventful few months for UK infrastructure policy, even by recent standards. Industry warnings about offshore wind incentives were ignored, net zero policies were scaled back, and the northern leg of High Speed 2 was cancelled. Within this whirlwind policy environment, the…

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Lighthouse | The next Parliament’s infrastructure to-do list

Andy Bolton — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 17:00:20 +0000

It seems that the UK’s infrastructure to-do list grows ever larger. Progress towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, delivering net zero, adapting to climate change and addressing economic and regional disparity have slowed. Policy uncertainty, spending constraints and weak productivity have all contributed. With a…

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