Government plans dominated by transport schemes

Analysis by KPMG has shown more than half of the government’s official future construction workload is transport projects

57% of the total value of forecast spending by central and local government, according to the analysis is spent on transport.

Energy schemes are the second largest category by value, KPMG said, worth £14.8bn.

Nearly one-third of the total number of projects are in the South-East and South-West, but nearly half of the investment will be in national projects benefitting the whole of England.

Four in 10 schemes are due to complete before 2016.

KPMG UK head of infrastructure, building and construction Richard Threlfall said: “Our analysis of the UK government’s construction pipeline shows the huge dominance of rail and road schemes in the government’s infrastructure spend.

“Nearly 60% of the total value forecast to be spent over the next 10 years and beyond is on schemes such as HS2 and the national road network.”

NCE reported last month that the value of flood defence projects on the government’s official pipeline had fallen since December despite the severe weather earlier this year. Funding set aside at last year’s spending review had yet to be fully allocated to individual flood defence schemes.

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