The Budget was a signifier of tone shift – never mind the missing detail

By Holly Davis 2024-11-05T07:00:00

Last week’s statement suggests the government has a clear appetite for investment. It is up to industry to shape and develop solutions for deals with the public sector, says KPMG’s Holly Davis

Budget day can be anti-climactic; the chancellor says a lot, without saying much in the way of detail. The traditional approach for industry commentators is then to spend the subsequent days picking through the detail, and reflecting critically on how it could have gone further, or identifying that it lacks a key enabler.

An alternative approach is for those in construction and infrastructure to treat it as a temperature check for the industry. In this way, we can allow it to show us where the momentum and conversation is building, rather than waiting for the detail to be set out for us. This can focus our attention on the key themes towards which we should pivot our effort and develop our own solutions.

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