Event report
Patron & Corporate Advocacy Breakfast: Unlocking the infrastructure decade: How will the UK’s infrastructure strategy be financed and delivered?
On Wednesday, 8 July, our members attended a roundtable breakfast with Oxford Economics on the UK's infrastructure plans.
Members gathered for a thought-provoking roundtable breakfast to discuss the practical implications of the UK's ambitious infrastructure pipeline for investors, contractors, and policymakers. Drawing on the findings of the Half-Built Britain: Unlocking the Nation’s Infrastructure Growth Plans report, participants explored the critical role of private capital in delivering the government's long-term infrastructure ambitions.
The discussion focused on the challenges facing major infrastructure projects, including funding gaps, delivery delays, cost overruns, and the need to improve project efficiency. Members shared insights and perspectives on how stronger collaboration between the public and private sectors can help unlock investment, enhance delivery, and ensure infrastructure projects generate lasting economic value.
Many thanks to our speakers Steve Mulholland, Chief Executive, Construction Plant-hire Association, as well as Graham Robinson, Global Infrastructure and Construction Lead, Oxford Economics and Jeremy Leonard, Managing Director of Global Industry Services, Oxford Economics.
A special thank you to our Chairman Alexis Kipling, Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure and TMT Finance at Societe Generale, who made this session greatly interactive.
~ This event was held under Chatham House rule ~
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