Select committee: Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee
Conclusion 7
3rd Report - The Government’s Management of Major Projects: An Interim Report
Published 5 Nov 2019
Paragraph 37
Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee The Government's management of major projects inquiry All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Conclusion (the committee's words)
The difficulty of accurately forecasting the benefits of a project is clear. It can also be difficult to assess whether they have actually achieved what they were designed to achieve. Nonetheless, whilst there is considerable attention paid to improving project management, major projects are not an end in themselves but exist to achieve public policy goals. Robust ex ante scrutiny of the link between projects and the needs that they are supposed to address, and proper post hoc evaluation of whether they have done so, cannot be overlooked in the focus on improving project delivery.
From: Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, 3rd Report - The Government’s Management of Major Projects: An Interim Report (HC 303), paragraph 37, 5 November 2019
Government response
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