The infrastructure investment fund set up by Greater Manchester Pension Fund and the London Pension Fund Authority has expanded to include the funds that make up the proposed Northern Pool of LGPS...
More than £500bn in planned public and private investment is now in the UK’s infrastructure pipeline, according to an update issued by the Treasury today.
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
The Welsh finance secretary has welcomed the increase in capital funding announced by chancellor Philip Hammond in the Autumn Statement this week, but said it did not go far enough.
Chancellor Philip Hammond will not be able to resist calls for extra funding for health and social care for much longer, the head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies has predicted.
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.
Unison has warned the government that it would be acting unlawfully if it pressed the eight new Local Government Pension Scheme bodies to invest in infrastructure.
The National Infrastructure Commission will in January become an executive agency of the Treasury with its own budget, chancellor Philip Hammond has said.
Jeremy Corbyn has pledged that a Labour government would lift the housing borrowing cap on councils as part of what he called “municipal socialism for the 21st century”.
A Labour government would guarantee regional development scheme spending levels in line with European structural fund allocations over the next decade, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry has...
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has set out a plan for a network of regional development banks that would move major investment decisions out of Whitehall and into regions and localities.
Sustainable cities are about more than cutting carbon emissions – they involve thinking about how people live, travel and interact with the natural world. Ahead of the UN’s Habitat III...
The National Audit Office is investigating London’s new £4.2bn ‘super sewer’, over concerns around the project’s structural impact and its unusual funding model, it has been reported.
The High Speed 2 rail project is an “expensive vanity project” that is unlikely to be delivered on time and on budget and should be scrapped, the Taxpayers' Alliance has said today.
Securing a credit rating has helped Warrington Borough Council raise money for a regeneration project, its finance director Lynton Green told a CIPFA conference workshop.
City leaders must make the case for devolution to the new government if the programme is to continue under Theresa May’s administration, a leading localism expert has told CIPFA’s annual...
The National Audit Office has cast doubt on whether the High Speed 2 rail link can be delivered on time and to budget and has called on the Department for Transport to ensure the project is given an...
Hundreds of infrastructure projects are in the pipeline for the next five years. However, some have become mired in delays, and more are needed beyond 2021 to inspire industry confidence
A pensions investment initiative, which includes two council schemes, has set out its first £125m funding plan as part of a drive to boost infrastructure investment.
