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Recommendation 23
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NISTA integrates infrastructure strategy and delivery within the Treasury with a broad remit.
Recommendation
NISTA is combining strategy and delivery of infrastructure and will be responsible for overseeing the implementation of the 10-year infrastructure strategy, supported by a project pipeline, with industry, regulators and departments.44 NISTA told us that merging the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) and National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) into NISTA and making it part of the Treasury means NISTA will be greater than the sum of its parts with strategy, delivery, decision making and the money side all in one place. NISTA told us it has a much broader remit in terms of sectors compared to the NIC and IPA. It has six initial objectives, which include 40 Q 12 41 Q 58 42 Qq 16-17 43 Q 18 44 C&AG Report, para 3 15 overcoming barriers to delivery, enhancing and simplifying assurance, being head of function and profession for project delivery, publishing the pipeline, and spatial planning.45
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