3.13 Some of the increase in construction costs is due to the delay and construction inflation.12 The delay has also increased other costs to the Trusts, including the maintenance of the existing buildings, the costs of transitioning to the new buildings and other costs such as temporary works needed for the new Clatterbridge cancer centre, being built adjoining the Royal Liverpool's site, by another NHS Trust.
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12 For example, construction prices as measured by the Construction Output Price Index (published August 2019) grew 6.2% annually between 2015 and Carillion's collapse in January 2018.