2.5 To ensure that departments are fully engaged with the implementation programme, the Government has set out, as part of this plan, the key behaviours and actions to be embedded at board level into departments' business planning and decision making. These will also be set out in a Charter as set out in 2.12 below.
2.6 Delivery of a number of the Infrastructure UK actions is achieved through collaboration on specific projects or programmes. Infrastructure UK will work alongside departments and regulators and will be responsible for reporting progress against the implementation plan objectives. The projects themselves will remain under the control and direction of the commissioning departments and their delivery bodies.
2.7 The Government recognises that implementation of this plan will need to consider the different approaches between sectors, particularly for regulated and non-regulated infrastructure. Private sector investment already takes place within a policy and regulatory framework which itself should serve to incentivise improved delivery.
2.8 The Government announced in the Plan for Growth at Budget 2011 that it will publish in April 2011 a binding set of principles of economic regulation to provide greater certainty for long-term investors in UK infrastructure. These principles will shape the behaviour of Government into a more stable and predictable pattern. It will give greater clarity about the cycle for review and amendment of the regulatory frameworks and a more transparent articulation of policy priorities and guidance for regulators.1
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1 Postcomm, the Civil Aviation Authority, Office of Rail Regulation, Ofgem, Ofwat and Ofcom