What does construction want from the 2020 strategy?

By Jamie Harris2020-02-13T06:00:00

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What does the industry want from Whitehall, and how can the government achieve its five-year ambitions of reform?

Just before the government launched its most recent construction strategy in 2016, Paul Morrell, author of its inaugural 2011 proposals and the former chief construction adviser, told Building that he hoped there would be no more “damn-fool targets which are there presumably just to catch the eye of politicians and the media”.

It remains to be seen what impact the 2016 strategy had on meeting its £1.7bn efficiency savings target, despite the broad agreement that the strategy had made some progress on its core aims of making the public sector a better client.

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