{"id":16250,"date":"2017-07-28T17:37:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T16:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=16250"},"modified":"2017-07-28T17:37:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T16:37:54","slug":"government-issues-response-to-farmer-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=16250","title":{"rendered":"Government issues response to Farmer Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/FarmerReviewJuly2017.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16251\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/FarmerReviewJuly2017-187x300.png\" alt=\"Farmer Review July 2017\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The government has issued its response to Mark Farmer\u2019s\u00a0\u2018Modernise or Die: The Farmer review of the UK construction labour model\u2019\u00a0but has stopped short of introducing its controversial recommendation to implement a client charge for those firms who fail to invest in skills and innovation.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In February 2016, Cast CEO, Mark Farmer, was commissioned by the Construction Leadership Council, at the request of the ministers for Housing &amp; Planning &amp; Skills, to undertake an independent review of the UK\u2019s construction labour model.\u00a0It looked in particular at the skills pressures and\u00a0other constraints that limit housebuilding and infrastructure development in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting report called for radical steps to be taken to address the sector\u2019s longstanding problems. In its response, the Department for Business, Energy, &amp; Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has backed most of Mr Farmer\u2019s \u00a0ten recommendations but was reluctant to support the call to charge those companies \u00a0who fail to voluntarily adopt the changes required.<\/p>\n<p>Apprenticeship and Skills Minister Anne Milton has written to CITB Chairman, James Wates, to inform him of the government\u2019s decision to allow the organisation to continue hold levy-raising powers. In its response to this proposal, the government stated: \u2018the introduction of a client charge to encourage and fund modernisation could risk damaging developer confidence and increasing costs, at least in the short term.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It said its focus would instead be on implementing other measures and supporting steps the industry could introduce following the Farmer Review.<\/p>\n<p>See links at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/construction-labour-market-in-the-uk-farmer-review-government-response\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK Gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See more background at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Farmer_Review_2016:_Modernise_or_die\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DBW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See DBW\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Interview_with_Mark_Farmer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview <\/a>with Mark Farmer<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukconstructionmedia.co.uk\/news\/government-issues-response-farmer-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK Construction Media <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has issued its response to Mark Farmer\u2019s\u00a0\u2018Modernise or Die: The Farmer review of the UK construction labour model\u2019\u00a0but has stopped short of introducing its controversial recommendation to implement a client charge for those firms who fail to invest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=16250\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16252,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16250\/revisions\/16252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}