Select committee: Transport Committee
Conclusion 7
Second Report - Major transport infrastructure projects
Published 29 Sep 2021
Paragraph 36
Addressed to Department for Transport
Transport Committee Major transport infrastructure projects: appraisal and delivery All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Conclusion (the committee's words)
Government agencies have repeatedly delivered major transport infrastructure projects that exceeded the specified cost and/or delivery date. Senior management of those Government agencies were apparently unaccountable for such overruns. Senior management of Government agencies with ultimate responsibility for project delivery must be incentivised to avoid cost and/or time overruns. The senior management of Government agencies with responsibility for delivering major infrastructure projects should be subject to a formal duty immediately to notify the relevant Select Committee in cases in which cost and/or time ceilings will be exceeded.
From: Transport Committee, Second Report - Major transport infrastructure projects (HC 24), paragraph 36, 29 September 2021
Government response
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