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While giving evidence to the House of Lords Built Environment Committee, Smallwood was asked about the parliamentary process behind major infrastructure
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While giving evidence to the House of Lords Built Environment Committee, Smallwood was asked about the parliamentary process behind major infrastructure
National infrastructure goals are being undermined by the construction sector’s reluctance to modernise, a leading industry figure has warned.
Providing evidence at a House of Lords Built Environment Committee meeting Smallwood, who is also head of the government's Project Delivery Function, said
The publication of the government’s infrastructure pipeline has been set back by months due to political turmoil in the wake of September’s ill-fated
Fracking, a new technology to release oil and natural from shale rock, has transformed American energy production. But permission to frack in the U.K. lasted for only a week. In one of his first actions as Britain’s Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak reversed his predecessor Liz Truss’s permission, subject to local consent, to develop some of his country’s reserves of oil and natural gas through fracking.