This year, as part of our exclusive Top 150 Consultants survey, we once again asked firms to rate the performance of the UK Labour government to support the built environment sector since 2024.

Compared with a year ago, the industry’s opinion of the government’s performance shows a clear downturn.

The percentage of firms saying the government’s performance is “poor” has increased from 23% to 31%, while those saying it is “very poor” increased from 5% to 13%. The percentage with a “neutral” opinion dropped 18 percentage points to 43%, suggesting a sizeable proportion of firms undecided last year have now stopped given the government the benefit of the doubt.

Just 13% of companies said the government’s performance has been “good” for the built environment and none at all described it as “excellent”.

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