Defence: Infrastructure
The question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an impact assessment of estimating factors such as risk, returns and readiness for delivery of any defence-related projects being delivered through the infrastructure pipeline.
Answered by Lucy Rigby
The dynamic Infrastructure Pipeline dashboard provides broad sector insight on projected demand, costs and timing and is not designed to assess project risk, returns or readiness. Furthermore, the Infrastructure Pipeline covers physical infrastructure and construction projects only, and therefore is not representative of all capital spending by the Ministry of Defence. The latest March 2026 Pipeline does not include any project level entries for defence as the Defence Investment Plan had not been finalised. NISTA’s Annual Report on the Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) includes a project delivery confidence assessment.
Defence projects on the Government Major Projects Portfolio are covered by the standard GMPP assurance process. This includes reviews at key stages, which consider risk, deliverability and readiness to proceed, and inform delivery confidence assessments. Any issues identified are then addressed through the normal assurance process.
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