Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 23
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We have asked the Department for the lessons it has learned from these experiences on...
Conclusion
We have asked the Department for the lessons it has learned from these experiences on several different occasions and we asked again at this session in July. The Department referred again to the report it had produced with the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, following the announcement of delays and cost increases on the Crossrail programme in July 2018: Lessons learned from transport for the sponsorship of major projects.61 The Department repeated that as well as the lessons learned report, it has run an “extensive project development improvement plan” across the Department. It told us that the plan aims to strengthen the Department’s capability, governance, culture and transparency. It also said that it had shared its plan with colleagues across government through an infrastructure steering group.62
Government Response
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HM Government
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5.2 The department is at the forefront of work across government to develop a lessons management approach in conjunction with its delivery partners following the 2019 ‘Lessons from Transport for the Sponsorship of Major Projects’ report. A comprehensive programme of work is underway to embed lessons across all major transport infrastructure projects and programmes. 5.3 The department wrote a letter to the Committee on 30 November 2021 to provide an update on progress of the overall programme, and specifically outlining the changes in approach that has been implemented in delivering major programmes with its arms-length bodies as a result of this work.