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<p>The government is committed to the approach to infrastructure that was set out
in the National Infrastructure Strategy (NIS) in November 2020. This addresses the
long-term issues that have held back investment in and delivery of UK infrastructure,
and ensures a coherent cross-sectoral approach to decision-making.</p><p> </p><p>As
committed to in the NIS, last year the government reviewed the National Infrastructure
Commission’s (NIC’s) role and responsibilities, and the NIC’s fiscal remit. As a result
of those reviews, at Spending Review 2021 the government updated the NIC’s objectives
to reflect the government’s climate commitments and increased the NIC’s fiscal remit.
These changes will inform the NIC’s Second National Infrastructure Assessment, to
be published in 2023, which launched recently with the publication of a baseline report
and will set out the NIC’s expert independent assessment of the UK’s economic infrastructure
needs. ICE’s policy statement was one of the sources that informed the reviews, and
ongoing engagement with industry stakeholders and representative organisations remains
central to the government’s infrastructure strategy.</p>
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