The Construction Products Association (CPA) has laid down three key challenges to Gordon Brown in advance of the government’s spending review.
CPA chief executive Michael Ankers wrote to Mr Brown, urging him to clearly differentiate between revenue spending and capital expenditure. He said this would prevent capital funds being diverted to meet revenue-spending shortfalls.
Mr Ankers also called for clear and publicly monitored interim output targets for the review period to be published, in order to assist progress in the nation’s social housing, health facilities and transport infrastructure.
The third challenge is for higher levels of integrated working between spending departments and their members, with early involvement of construction product manufacturers and suppliers in government-funded projects to achieve better value for money.
The CPA also called for a reform and acceleration of the Private Finance Initiative process, which it says is holding up delivery of new hospitals and other major public sector projects.
