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THE MEETING PLACE FOR INFRASTRUCTURE

STUDIES & REPORTS

Advance Tax Certainty for Infrastructure Projects

TIF provided a response to the government consultation on advance tax certainty for infrastructure projects. The Forum has long argued that while the UK must be innovative with its tax relief system, it must first prioritise increased simplicity, stability, and certainty for business.

Front End Productivity Design

A question for the sector has for a long time been how can we incentivise investment and ensure productivity gains in an environment where certainty is elusive? To answer this, The Infrastructure Forum, in collaboration with Accenture, have developed a new approach, known as Front-End Productivity Design (FEPD).

October 2024 Budget Submission

The Infrastructure Forum’s Taxation Working Group has an excellent record for influencing HM Treasury with constructive ideas on incentives for infrastructure investment. The Working Group pioneered the Super Deduction, and last year the full expensing initiative. An important aspect of our October 2024 submission was the emphasis on incentives for capital investment.

Letter to Lord Johnson

The Infrastructure Forum met with Lord Johnson, Minister for Investment to delve into the key opportunities and obstacles regarding infrastructure development performance in the UK. Upon the Minister's request, we followed up with notes encompassing the discussed area

Letter to Planning Minister, Matthew Pennycook

As the Planning and Infrastructure Bill progresses through the committee stage in Parliament, The Infrastructure Forum wrote to Planning Minister, Matthew Pennycook MP, showing how the government could go further to achieve more substantial improvements to the planning system.

Industrial Strategy Green Paper

The Infrastructure Forum submitted a response to the Government’s Industrial Strategy Green Paper. The submission, overseen by Sir Alex Chisholm KCB, Chair of EDF UK, incorporated input from the Chair of TIF’s Advisory Council and its Investment, Energy, Planning and Taxation Working Groups.

Thames Tideway Financing

The government is considering the use of the Thames Tideway finance model for further infrastructure capital projects. The Infrastructure Forum has long urged the government to consider this approach and amongst its work has produced a full briefing on the possibilities offered by the Tideway template.

Strengthening Consensus on Infrastructure Projects

The Forum put together a proposal with the aim of enhancing the future role of the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC).

Streamlining Infrastructure Planning

In its response to the Planning Reform Working Paper, TIF’s working group argues that there are a number of measures that the government should take to streamline the development of the UK’s critical national infrastructure to seek to deliver the outcomes signposted and intended.

Boosting Local & Regional Infrastructure

Infrastructure projects in the UK should be decentralised with Mayors, local authorities and communities playing a much larger part in their planning and financing, according to a new report from The Infrastructure Forum

Open Letter to No.10

The Infrastructure Forum sent an open letter to the Prime Minister highlighting key elements in developing critical national infrastructure projects and addressing the approaches which will best facilitate this. The letter, signed by Richard Threlfall, Chair of TIF’s Advisory Council, emphasises the role of the Prime Minister himself, noting that it is his continuing personal support and engagement that can ensure Government Departments align behind policies to drive pace and efficiency in infrastructure investments.

10 year Infrastructure Strategy Working Paper

The Infrastructure Forum submitted a response to the Government’s 10 Year Infrastructure Strategy Working Paper. TIF’s submission also stresses the need for government to embrace private finance across all infrastructure sectors.

National Planning Policy Framework Consultation

The Forum submitted its response to the Government's consultation on reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). The response emphasises that the Infrastructure and Planning Bill should streamline the NSIP process without dismantling the current system, allowing it to function as originally intended.

Climate Adaptation & Resilience

With 2023 setting a record for global heating, the UK's infrastructure is exposed to more intense and frequent weather events. The Infrastructure Forum produced a paper on how the sector can adapt, and build resilience to the physical threats of climate change

OLDER REPORTS

What Does Tomorrow Look Like

What Does Tomorrow Look Like is as an examination of the way that infrastructure networks can transform the UK as part of building back better. The report highlighted the opportunities provided by the post-Covid reset to give the UK the chance of a leap forward in developing its most important network

Designing the UKIB

This report, authored by Charlotte Chase, raised six key questions that Treasury needed to resolve to set the UK Infrastructure Bank up for success and says that in doing so, Treasury will have to address the tensions inherent to a Government-owned Bank operating commercially.

Solvency II Reform

The Forum's submission to the HM Treasury consultation on Solvency II reform stated that as presented, the reforms would not incentivise an increased flow of long-term capital from insurance companies into the infrastructure sector.

Investment in Energy

This report suggests that providing access to development capital through a newly formed co-investment fund or Infrastructure Development Bank would help to support projects, especially those with high development costs such as Nuclear and CCUS.

Sustainable Procurement: A Vision of UK Infrastructure

Lack of visibility of public sector projects drove many of the unsustainable behaviours that led to the collapse of major government outsourcer Carillion in January 2018 The Infrastructure Forum produced a report which found that less than 8% of projects and programmes included in the Infrastructure and Project Authority’s National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline are sufficiently certain for contractors to invest to deliver them.

CCS: Time for An Ambitious Leap Forward

This paper, authored by industry expert Paul Davies, considered the key strategic reasons for adopting a clear, ambitious, public-private approach to CCS now, to create the building blocks of a new industry.

Risk Reward & Regulation

This purpose of this paper, authored by Cathryn Ross, is to draw out some changes and challenges that have commonalities across a number of regulated sectors A regulatory expert said that the paper is the best analysis they have seen of the state of economic regulation in the UK.

Regulated Infrastructure Investment

The report highlights that the Regulated Infrastructure Investment model provides a structure through which delivery risks can be shared between investors, contractors, developers, consumers and the taxpayer to incentivise efficient delivery of the investment at the best overall value for money

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