Chris Leslie MP, Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, responding to the EEF’s report calling for a permanent UK Infrastructure Authority, said:

“The EEF is right to say we need a new approach to address Britain’s long-term infrastructure needs.

“Labour will establish an independent national infrastructure commission, as recommended by Sir John Armitt’s report. This would help to end the dither and delay we have seen on the big decisions Britain needs to take to secure its future.

“With business support growing for a new body to identify Britain’s infrastructure needs and hold governments to account for meeting them, it’s now time other political parties backed the idea too.”