National infrastructure assessment consultation includes water, sewerage and flood defences
NIC ‘The National Infrastructure Commission has launched a consultation into the process and methodology of the National Infrastructure Assessment (NIA). In its plan to establish the National Infrastructure Commission, the government set out a responsibility for the commission to:
- analyse the UK’s long-term economic infrastructure needs
- outline a strategic vision over a 30-year time horizon
- set out recommendations for how identified needs should begin to be met
- This will be done through the publication of a NIA once a parliament.
Although operationally independent, the National Infrastructure Commission is currently in interim form until being established in legislation. The paper is a consultation on a possible approach to developing a NIA and represents views of the interim Commission, not Government Ministers.
The Commission’s remit covers economic infrastructure. In line with this, the NIA will look across transport, energy, water and sewerage, flood defences, digital and communications and waste.’