Member

I want to draw on the National Audit Office analysis, alluded to by the noble Lords, Lord Blencathra and Lord Hodgson, and the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, as well as by the noble Viscount, Lord Eccles. We welcome the National Audit Office’s July 2022 report on the project and have addressed all its recommendations. It recognised the challenges we face of managing cost pressures in the context of inflation across the construction sector, and of disappointing delays arising from opposition to the planning application.