The creation of an infrastructure bank to help offset lost European Investment Bank funding will be crucial to economic recovery according to consultancy firm Bidwells.
Councils could speed up infrastructure and affordable housing delivery by borrowing against its proposed new infrastructure levy according to the government’s consultation on planning reform.
The House of Lords Select Committee on Public Services has launched an inquiry into the role of public services during the coronavirus pandemic – with a view to ensuring any positive outcomes are fed...
Major infrastructure projects always come with their controversies, and High Speed 2 is no exception. Rob Whiteman says the recent furore surrounding the project highlights a need for new ways of...
Kim Thomas looks at whether the solution to the puzzle of widespread project management failures lie in what happens before schemes even get off the ground.
Public private partnerships need to be managed actively and effectively throughout the life of the contract if value is to be realised, says Morag Baird of the Global Infrastructure Hub
Local authorities need to put in place 25-year infrastructure plans to deliver economic and social benefits, Lord Andrew Adonis told the CIPFA conference yesterday.
Local authorities are demanding that the government clarifies how it will fund infrastructure after the UK loses billions of pounds from the European Investment Bank following Brexit.
Scotland faces long-term reductions in regeneration funding after Brexit and could be asked to pay its share of the UK’s divorce bill, delegates at the CIPFA Scotland conference have heard.
The government must not forget its promise to improve northern infrastructure if it wants to unlock the economic potential of the region, says Joe Anderson.
Whitehall needs to improve its cost benefit analysis or risk losing value from its £250bn infrastructure project pipeline, the Institute for Government has warned.
The Garden Bridge highlights the flaws in government infrastructure decision-making, says Graham Atkins of the Insittute for Government. He outlines three key lessons for the future.
Government decision-making over infrastructure projects must improve or risk wasting billions of pounds, an Institute for Government report has stated.
Facts and figures from the December 2016 edition of Public Finance magazine on infrastructure, state pensions, the benefits of buses, and crime big and small
Philip Hammond has pledged a real terms doubling of the government’s annual spending on housing through a £2.3bn fund unveiled in the Autumn Statement today.
The Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) has named Matthew Vickerstaff as its deputy chief executive and the new role of head of the project finance profession within government.
The National Infrastructure Commission will in January become an executive agency of the Treasury with its own budget, chancellor Philip Hammond has said.
