The 2024 Infrastructure Progress Review reviews the government’s progress over the past year against the recommendations from the 2018 National Infrastructure Assessment and the studies the Commission has published and which the government has responded to. [...] Government and Ofgem also jointly published a Connections Action Plan, intended to reduce the time taken for customers to connect to the electricity network.43 The government has set an ambition for up to 24GW of new nuclear power to be delivered by 2050, and reiterated this ambition in the nuclear roadmap published in January 2024.44 The government is supporting investment in the new nuclear plan. [...] The connections action plan should help to reduce the time taken to connect to the grid, though initial indications are that the queue to connect to the network is still growing at pace and more action will be needed. [...] However, government should try and ensure that the pace of deployment in rural areas matches that of urban areas, so that rural areas are not pushed to the back of the queue in the deployment of gigabit broadband, and there needs to be consideration on how the final one per cent of premises, the hardest to connect, will have their needs met. [...] The Commission recommended that government sets out the telecoms needs (including mobile) in the energy, water and rail sectors as part of the Second National Infrastructure Assessment, and the Commission looks forward to receiving government’s response to this, as well as the other recommendations on telecoms which were made in the report.
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- 124
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- United Kingdom
Table of Contents
- Foreword 4
- Executive summary 6
- Approach to reviewing progress 18
- Energy and net zero 20
- Growth across all regions: Digital 35
- Growth across all regions: Long term plan for rail 46
- Growth across all regions: Transport 56
- The environment: Flood resilience 66
- The environment: Water 75
- The environment: Waste 83
- Cross cutting 92
- References 108
