Wes Streeting MP, Labour’s Shadow Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, responding to the Institution of Civil Engineers ‘State of the Nation’ report, said:

“This report should serve as a wake-up call to Government that we will fail to meet our net-zero target unless the Government makes the big decisions now on the long-term infrastructure investment we will need to get us there.

“The Government’s National Infrastructure Strategy with a green recovery at the heart of it is now long overdue. It’s time for the Chancellor to come forward with a plan to deliver the net-zero infrastructure plan our country needs.”