One in three firms are already feeling the impact of Brexit, creating an urgent need for industry and government to collaborate on Brexit-related skills challenges, according to new research from the Construction Industry Training Board.

The CITB’s new green paper, which updates the 2017 migration research - Research into Migration in the UK Construction and Built Environment Sector - found while a growing number of employers were feeling the effects of Brexit, like staff shortages and a fewer clients, less than a third had taken action as it approaches, or were even plan on doing so.

Steve Radley, policy director at CITB, said many firm’s were banking on using the two-year transition period to come up with a new recruitment plan, with 60% of firms that employ 100 or more people saying the transition period was extremely important.