Its been widely reported that Parliament's Public Accounts Committee has warned that major projects - such as HS2, A1 dualling to Scotland, Crossrail, and major defence contracts - are failing or going over budget due to the failure of ministers to effectively manage projects or give guidance to officials. The Government, the PAC found, "does not have a standard definition for resets, with no specific guidance available", making it less likely that failing programmes are brought back on track.
Unfortunately for Government, on the same day a report from the UK in a Changing Europe think tank has found that new institutions created by the Government to replace public investment from the European Investment Bank (EIB) have replaced only a third of lost EIB investment.
The EIB invested an average of £6.4bn per year in the UK between 2009 and 2016 in real terms, the report reveals - while successor institutions invested just £2.4bn last year.
Infrastructure investment outside London and of course even though the English Tories in office may not have noticed, the extension of the A1 THROUGH NORTHUMBERLAND is outside London, financial input has fallen even faster, with investment at just 17% of levels seen under the European Investment Bank. Author Stephen Hunsaker found the new institutions are backing "fewer, smaller and lower-risk projects" due to their modest scale.
The failure of the elitist Tories in not replacing European investment levels adequately has led to a major decline in a number of industries. Institutional investors have been getting away with vacuum cleaning profits from our economy in every area from farming to energy supply with water and sewage treatment being obvious examples of where profits and payouts to shareholders have been immense yet reinvestment has failed ordinary people as even in London where investment still takes place schools were closed this week through the lack of fresh water supplies. Yet this current Government has no plans in place to force privatised public services to place people before profit in any essential industry with Northumberland's British volt failure a prime example of the Tories in action. Or should that read inaction?
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