Member

I share the thought that leadership, people and relationships early on in these large projects really matter. Words are all fine but, unless we think about these things together very early on and lay the foundation stones correctly, the costs, not just commercially and financially but also in terms of sustainability and all the issues we are rightly worrying about in this Chamber this evening, get lost. Some £323 million of taxpayers’ money, let alone the carbon and other costs of all that, is a very big cost for some of us not getting that relationship together earlier, as it should have been. I just throw that in because learning by doing, the practicality of these big projects, really matters.