Source · Select Committees · Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee
Recommendation 2
2
Deferred
Paragraph: 44
The overall framework for this investment should be provided by the National Infrastructure Strategy, but...
Recommendation
The overall framework for this investment should be provided by the National Infrastructure Strategy, but this is significantly delayed and has yet to be published. The Government is keen to spend money quickly as part of the Coronavirus “bounce back” but it needs to publish the overall infrastructure strategy to ensure that money is spent in a co-ordinated and effective way.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government indicates that further details about its long-term infrastructure ambitions and the National Infrastructure Strategy will be set out at the Spending Review and in the NIS 'this autumn', deferring the publication requested by the committee.
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Paragraph Reference:
44
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government · verbatim extract
Deferred
Government believes that infrastructure is central to our economic strategy. Along with the Spending Review, the National Infrastructure Strategy was delayed to later this year to ensure that HM Treasury and departments could remain focused on responding to the immediate public health and economic emergency. The NIS will set out further details on its long-term ambitions, including on decarbonisation and levelling up. The NIS will also formally respond to recommendations made by the National Infrastructure Commission in their National Infrastructure Assessment which is based on detailed consideration of the UK’s long term infrastructure needs, including across regions.
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