Procurement – Covid-19

Building Safety Levy is unfair and punitive, say house builders

The Home Builders Federation (HBF) has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer asking for the proposed Building Safety Levy to be ‘reconsidered’, and for product manufacturers, who were heavily criticised by the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 report, to be forced to make a bigger contribution.

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Developer pays £88,000 over health and safety breaches

A London property developer has been fined £63,000 and ordered to pay £25,622 costs after being found guilty of multiple health and safety offences.

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High Court sets date for Wimbledon judicial review hearing

The High Court has set aside two days from 8 July for a hearing on a judicial review challenge to plans to expand the Wimbledon tennis complex.

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Mega projects need stronger governance, says NAO

The National Audit Office (NAO) has called on the Treasury and the new National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) to improve how they categorise and define major projects according to their risk and strategic importance.

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Industry’s poor attitudes to health and safety revealed in report

Construction workers are seen as having the worst attitudes towards workplace health and safety by 37% of health and safety professionals, according to research from occupational health and safety trainer RRC International, who say the official statistics hugely understate the real scale of the problems.

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NAO report criticises lack of transparency over industry support decisions

Weaknesses in how the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) supports UK industries must be addressed if government is to maximise the impact of its forthcoming Industrial Strategy and achieve its priority mission of growing the economy, says the National Audit Office (NAO) in a new report.

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New Bill to transform infrastructure delivery

The Planning and Infrastructure Bill has received a cautiously warm welcome to its proposals designed to speed up planning and reduce obstacles to delivering infrastructure.

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Merseyside Police charge 12 with alleged construction contract bribery offences

Former Liverpool politicians and construction suppliers to the City Council have been charged with bribery and misconduct relating to construction contracts.

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Housebuilding targets questioned at Select Committee hearing

Government hopes to build 1.5 million houses by the end of the parliament in 2029 came under harsh scrutiny at a parliamentary select committee session, with planning, skills shortages and funding all being raised as obstacles by witnesses.

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Network Rail fined £7.1million for fatal health and safety breaches

Network Rail has been fined a total of over £7 million in the past few weeks for health and safety breaches that led to the death of three track workers in two separate incidents.

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