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<p>Since 2010, over 4,900 public and private infrastructure projects have been successfully
delivered.</p><p>In particular, since 2010, the government has earmarked 158 major
projects as being of national significance and a priority, including 90 listed in
the National Infrastructure Delivery Plan 2016-2021. IPA tracks and publishes the
delivery progress of all 158 projects, publishing a National Infrastructure and Construction
Pipeline document each year. As reported in the current edition of the Pipeline, published
in November 2018, the vast majority are being delivered, with 98% completed or on
track to deliver.</p><p>In 2018 alone, over 400 infrastructure projects were completed
and moved into operation across a number of sectors. In the North West, for example,
these included major investments such as the Walney Extension wind farm capable of
powering over 600,000 homes; 2km of new flood defences to protect thousands of homes
in Rossall on the coast of Lancashire; and the UK’s first Proton Beam Therapy centre
at Christie Hospital in Manchester.</p><p>But it is not just major projects such as
these which are having a real impact on people’s lives. We are also delivering hundreds
of smaller projects across the UK.</p>
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