We are the government’s centre of expertise for infrastructure and major projects.
We support the successful delivery of all types of major projects; ranging from railways, schools, hospitals and housing, to defence, IT and major transformation programmes.
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Our purpose is to drive continuous improvement in the way government delivers infrastructure and major projects.We aspire for nothing less than world class delivery.
We sit at the heart of government, reporting to the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury.
Who we are
Our core teams include experts in all elements of project delivery: infrastructure, IT, defence transformation, project finance and project profession capability who work with government departments and industry.
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In the run up to the autumn spending review, prime minister Boris Johnson proclaimed a vision of a “green industrial revolution”. His ten point-plan indicated that funding was to be raised through a range of new “blended finance” initiatives in line with last year’s Green Finance Strategy published by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). This approach sees the role of the state to be to ‘crowd-in’ and act as guarantor to private financial investors, and pension funds.
In line with expectations, the spending review announced a new ‘national infrastructure bank’ – despite the previous Green Investment Bank being sold off to private equity group Macquarie only three years ago. It can be assumed the new bank will run on lines similar to the British Business Bank: a state-owned but privately managed institution. The government’s plans align with a broader coalition of calls for greater involvement of privat