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News in Brief: January/February 2024

The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has called on Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt to include a range of policy measures in his Spring 2024 budget, including using some form of Private Finance Initiative type of funding.

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Date given for delayed rules on biodiversity net gain to be introduced

New government rules for biodiversity net gain (BNG) will come into force on 12 February 2024, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has confirmed. An extension has been granted until 2 April for small sites.

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Mayors to meet Minister over Birmingham-Manchester railway link

West Midlands Mayor Andy Street and Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham are to meet transport secretary Mark Harper to discuss plans about a replacement for the cancelled HS2 leg between Birmingham and Manchester.

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Red Flag raised for construction insolvencies

Accountant Begbies Traynor’s latest Red Flag Alert report says the number of construction companies in critical financial distress grew by 32.6% in the last quarter of 2023.

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Construction Leadership Council calls for private finance for infrastructure investment

The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has called on Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt to include a range of policy measures in his Spring 2024 budget, including using some form of Private Finance Initiative type of funding.

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Scottish procurement transformation plan launched

A Transformation Action Plan for reforming Scottish construction procurement, improving quality and moving towards net zero and fair work has been produced by industry-government collaborative body the Construction Leadership Forum (CLF).

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Suspended prison sentence for director after scaffold tube strikes overhead power line

A Kent scaffolding company has been fined and its director given a suspended prison sentence after a scaffolder suffered life changing injuries from an 11,000-volt electric shock.

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PFI investors group gets its first Chair

The new body representing Private Finance Initiative investors has recruited its first head, Labour peer Lord John Hutton.

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Street works fines to rise under DfT proposals

Government has launched consultation on increasing penalties on contractors for street works offences in a bid to reduce congestion and raise up to £10 million a year for resurfacing roads, setting the scene for confrontation with utilities companies and their contractors.

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Whitehall suffers from major project governance problem, says NAO

The need for better practice in delivering major projects, more efficient maintenance and improvement of assets and more professional procurement have been highlighted by the head of government spending watchdog the National Audit Office in his annual address to Parliament.

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