Government adviser says pipeline may be extended beyond three years and suggests smaller projects might have a part to play

Chief construction adviser Paul Morrell says the government is looking at whether to expand its 拢50bn pipeline of government construction work beyond the three years currently detailed.

Morrell, speaking to 黑洞社区 after a revised pipeline of work was published last week, said the government was also looking to see if smaller projects could be included in the table of future government construction jobs.

He said: 鈥淲e are currently considering how we might identify potential projects beyond this [three-year] Spending Review period.

鈥淲e will also continue to drill down to reach departments with smaller programmes and projects, as we know this is important to SMEs;
and to work with industry to see how it might be served by increased granularity in the published information.鈥�

Morrell鈥檚 comments follow the launch of plans to support the growth of UK tunnelling skills and a revised public building work pipeline last week, which added projected work from all government departments, rather than the seven departments originally included.

Morrell said the government was unable to force local authorities to put their project information into the pipeline, but that it was
hoping to 鈥減ersuade them鈥� it was in their interests to do so.

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