All Government policy articles – Page 61
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Government to launch major construction labour review
Construction Leadership Council will oversee report by consultant Mark Farmer on how to reform industry
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Features
Interview: Peter Hansford
Until two months ago Peter Hansford was the government’s chief construction advisor. Now the position has been abolished. Here, he talks frankly about the state of the industry and how his legacy will be perceived
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Comment
Wet, wet, wet
With outdated policy, procurement and funding models, flood defences are a key area of infrastructure weakness. So far none of the solutions the government has offered has worked - largely because its whole approach needs radical reform
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Fears over £1,000 immigrant skills charge
The CECA has hit out at proposals from the Migration Advisory Committee
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MoD to sell land for 15,000 homes
The Ministry of Defence plans to sell 12 sites to raise £500m for defence budgets
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Hundreds arrested in illegal working crackdown
“Operation Magnify” results in more than 250 arrests
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Skills shortage threatens housing and infrastructure
RICS survey reveals that the skills shortage could derail government’s plans
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Cameron’s estate regeneration plan is ‘unrealistic’ say experts
Housing experts say £140m pledged for plans to regenerate 100 of the UK’s most deprived estates is not enough
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Row erupts over Boris Johnson's decision to call in Norton Folgate
Heritage group challenges mayor after intervention on Spitalfields redevelopment
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Dilley: Flood review not affected by resignation
Former Environment Agency chair tells ɫTV that review will be unchanged by his departure
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Comment
Flood-proofing rethink required
December’s devestating floods and storms show the need to put the way we design and build our homes back on the agenda
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Cameron pledges to knock down sink estates
Government drafts in Lord Heseltine to transform or replace 100 of the worst estates
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HMRC nets £154m from construction crackdown
Industry continues to be a main target of HMRC tax investigations
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Comment
Squeezing not selling
Why local authorities’ new freedoms should lead to better use - rather than a fire sale - of their assets
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Features
A non-starter?
In a week in which the government announced its intention to ‘directly commission’ up to 13,000 homes, you might think it had begun, finally, to get a grip on housebuilding. But its flagship Starter Homes policy is set to shake up the development industry, causing delays - and fears it ...
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Feed-in tariff cut plans could risk half of solar sector jobs
Impact assessment warns up to 18,700 jobs could be lost as a result of proposed 64% cuts
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Third of major government projects "in doubt"
National Audit Office says government doesn’t know if performance improving
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Exclusive: Environment Agency chief on flood spend review
Chair Philip Dilley tells ɫTV flood could herald a “completely new experience” and that investment will be re-examined