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Balfour Beatty plans to cut jobs next year as a direct result of the uncertainty surrounding infrastructure, its chief executive has warned.

Speaking during a group discussion on last night, Ian Tyler told business secretary Vince Cable that lack of certainty 鈥減articularly in the energy sector鈥� would see his firm and its supply chain forced to reduce headcounts in 2013.

Tyler also predicted that 2013 would be a 鈥渓ot worse鈥� for construction industry job losses in general than this year.

He said: 鈥淭he reality is that we hear a lot about the government鈥檚 commitment to growth but鈥� if you look at the construction sector, we will have lost a significant number of jobs in the last 12 months and 2013 is going to be a lot worse.

鈥淭here is going to be less physical infrastructure created in the UK next year. There are a number of reasons for that. One is that government spending in infrastructure is reducing.

鈥淭he second reason is a lack of confidence in the private sector but a third reason, and this is, for us in particular, a major reason we will have to cut back next year, is a lack of certainty over big infrastructure projects and particularly in the energy sector.

鈥淲e have got a lot of work we were expecting to come through; we are now going to have to lay people off, our supply chain will have to lay people off.鈥�

Back in October, 黑洞社区 exclusively revealed , which the firm said would result in a maximum of 650 job losses.