The Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) has published its sixth annual report on the Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP), with many having significant impacts on the historic environment.
Projects include:
- 1617 New Property Model Programme: Creation of the Government Property Agency, a new Executive Agency of the Cabinet Office
- Crossrail Programme: A new high-frequency rail service which will increase rail-based capacity in London by up to 10% and cut journey times across London and the South E
- Priority School Building Programme 2: To rebuild or refurbish individual school buildings (or blocks) in the worst condition across 277 schools in England
- Francis Crick Institute: the biggest biomedical research facility under a single roof in Europe
- Government’s role in setting up the Thames Tideway Tunnel: a major new sewer to protect the River Thames and create 4,000 new jobs
- Hinkley Point C enabling project: securing private investment into a new nuclear plant so construction can begin.
Government writes:
The IPA, which supports the delivery of a range of large government projects, has published its latest annual report on the government’s most important major projects, reporting that 26 have been successfully completed this year.
Projects delivered range from transformation and ICT programmes which modernise the civil service and make public services more efficient, to infrastructure and construction projects and military capability programmes, which grow our economy, improve productivity and defend the nation…
The IPA’s Annual Report provides a snapshot of how all GMPP projects were progressing as of September 2017. The GMPP is a continually evolving portfolio of the government’s most complex and high risk projects and it regularly changes to reflect government policy priorities. The current portfolio includes 133 major projects with a whole life cost of £423 billion, spread across 16 government departments.
Over half of this year’s 26 completed projects received a Green or Amber Green Delivery Confidence Assessment (DCA) – the IPA’s rating of a project’s chance of success at a specific point in time. By taking the right steps following reviews and managing challenges effectively, DCAs are often improved and a project’s likelihood of delivery is increased.
The IPA supports the delivery of government projects by helping to set them up for success, building delivery capability in departments and managing more than 200 independent assurance reviews of projects each year.
