{"id":70723,"date":"2016-05-19T13:01:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T13:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=28e7d033c84b4c0041bc7b012bc22306"},"modified":"2016-05-19T13:01:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T13:01:41","slug":"press-release-government-underlines-its-commitment-to-establish-the-national-infrastructure-commission-via-primary-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=70723","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Government underlines its commitment to establish the National Infrastructure Commission via primary legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Following a consultation<\/a> on how the National Infrastructure Commission should be structured and run, the government has today underlined its commitment to establish the commission via primary legislation.The response document<\/a> also sets out that it will be mandatory for the government to respond to all recommendations from the commission.<\/p>\n

Infrastructure is crucial to help build a more balanced, healthy economy for working people, and this important new organisation will determine national infrastructure priorities and hold the government to account for their delivery.<\/p>\n

The commission, which has been operating in interim form since October 2015, has begun work on a National Infrastructure Assessment, which will set out its analysis of infrastructure needs over a 10 to 30 year horizon and set out an overarching, long-term vision.<\/p>\n

The commission is also currently undertaking studies on two infrastructure challenges:<\/p>\n