The UK's infrastructure investment pipeline
6.36 The Government has identified a substantial pipeline of planned investment in UK infrastructure over the next decade and beyond. This includes over 500 projects and programmes, worth over £250 billion to 2015 and beyond Chart 6.A summarises the pipeline by sector.
Chart 6.A: Infrastructure investment pipeline overviewa
Source: HM Treasury estimates from UK infrastructure investment pipeline data a Infrastructure investment pipeline estimates are indicative and reflect the information held within Government on infrastructure investment and other public sources of information. Data about purely private investment is subject to greater uncertainty than that for public sector or regulated investment. To enable analysis some observations have been estimated to provide annual breakdowns of totals and to fill gaps in the information available. Electricity generation data are estimates based on estimated capital costs per unit of output for a generic plant and construction time information. |
6.37 Most of the investment is contained within major programmes - for example highways, rail, nuclear and offshore wind, broadband - but there are also individual projects within sectors that stand out because of their size, complexity or importance to the UK economy. Over 80 per cent of the expected investment will be either privately or partially privately funded, and the remainder will be publicly funded.
6.38 To provide greater transparency and certainty on the forward programme of infrastructure investment that the Government expects, the detailed data underlying these pipeline estimates have been published on the HM Treasury website and will be refreshed annually.