The London 2012 Olympics nuclear decommissioning programme and Network Rail were the government s top priorities in the October Spending Review Construction News has learned
Design watchdog CABE is to be dissolved with around 20 of its staff being transferred to the Design Council according to a letter from culture secretary Jeremy Hunt to deputy prime minister Nick Clegg obtained by Construction News
Savage cuts to government spending on roads and social housing will delay the recovery in the construction industry by a year according to economic analysis
Carillion expects to achieve significant growth thanks to an increasing tendency for local authorities to outsource following the UK government s comprehensive spending review
Wales Scotland and Northern Ireland suffered greater drops in construction work in the third quarter of the year than the majority of England according to a poll of surveyors
Scotland s capital spending budget is to be slashed by 36 per cent after finance secretary John Swinney presented his draft budget to the Scottish Parliament
The Welsh Assembly Government has published its draft budget designed to allocate its reduced levels of spending in the wake of the Comprehensive Spending Review
The High Court verdict that communities secretary Eric Pickles unlawfully scrapped regional housing targets will create more uncertainty but few additional homes housing experts have said
The value of starts on site will be considerably lower in the first half of next year than the first half of this year according to business intelligence unit Glenigan
The government s clarity of policy and decision making has been much better than expected according to the latest Construction Leaders Forum organised by Construction News in association with Hays
