A new report from the National Audit Office has highlighted repeated problems with the delivery of major Government programmes in four key areas: scope, planning, managing interdependencies and oversight.

A new report evaluating how the UK appraises infrastructure projects says that the Government must get better at valuing the costs and benefits of infrastructure.

Leading global design and consultancy firm Arcadis for is warning that the UK must double its construction output to build at a rate of over £95,000 every single minute for the next decade to even come close to meeting national infrastructure ambitions.

The government has this morning launched its National Infrastructure Delivery Plan (NIDP)which brings together all of the government’s infrastructure priorities over the next five years - underpinned by a commitment to invest more than £100 billion in infrastructure by 2020-21.