How will construction benefit from the Queen's speech?

By Hamish Champ2020-01-06T11:21:00

Last month’s Queen’s speech should have cheered the construction sector, with billions of pounds earmarked for schools, housing, hospitals and more.

From a construction angle, the government’s agenda, as spelled out in last month’s Queen’s speech, was not short on ambition and should – in theory – give considerable cause for optimism. Mirroring much of the Conservatives’ manifesto in the run-up to the general election, the speech earmarked hundreds of billions of pounds for transport schemes, tackling the housing crisis, building new schools and hospitals, beefing up building safety, skilling up the workforce and increasing the powers of regional authorities across the country to spend money on essential projects.

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