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Recommendation 7
7
Infrastructure pipeline lacks consistent past performance analysis and year-on-year comparability
Recommendation
To improve the transparency of longer-term investment priorities and to support investors with planning, the IPA had published the National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline annually from 2016 to 2024 – with the exception of 2019, 2020 and 2022. The 2024 publication contains details of the forthcoming procurement and assumptions for the estimated value of the investment that will be delivered via public finance and private finance across a range of infrastructure types.10 There has been no analysis of past performance for projects in the pipeline, as the data is too inconsistent to compare pipelines year on year, and three missing publication years 7 Committee of Public Accounts, Government’s use of private finance for infrastructure 8 Q 2 9 Qq 10 and 12 10 C&AG’s Report, para 2.11 8 have further reduced the value of the pipeline. The 2024 iteration of the pipeline was also a single snapshot in time, reflecting the previous government’s priorities.11
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 15 October 2025. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗