Delivery on the 10 Year Plan - The verdict of the freight transport industry
Introduction
The 10 Year Plan is the first long term plan for transport policy in the UK for more than 30 years and represents an important and welcome departure from the previous stop start treatment of transport investment. It was warmly welcomed by industry when it was published in July 2000. Under the 10 Year Plan industry has a route map of overall spending, infrastructure and deliverables. This provides a context in which companies can make strategic decisions about the structure of their supply chains in their long term business plans and invest some £850 billion in distribution and logistics.
In order to be able to confidently plan ahead, industry requires confidence that the Government will deliver the £180 billion promised in all areas of the Plan within the Plan’s timescales. While some new projects have been announced, most notably in the December 2002 Progress Report, industry is already concerned that the Plan has been slow to get underway. Further slippage of the Plan will undermine industry’s confidence to invest.
The rolling forward of the Plan to 2015 is essential in ensuring that there is continuity of long term transport policy vision and sustained investment. However, this must not be allowed to disguise the fact that the Government promised tangible outputs from the original Plan by 2010.
This briefing note is published to coincide with the launch of the Government's Review of the 10 Year Plan. It is intended to provide information and an objective view on Government delivery of nine core themes highlighted in the 10 Year Plan. For each theme the progress that has been made to date is assessed.
The symbol  identifies what industry perceives to be the threats to delivering the 10 Year Plan objectives.
Government delivery on each of the deliverables has been assessed as shown below:
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Good progress has been made |
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Some progress has been made but more needs to be done |
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Little, if any progress has been made |
The nine themes are listed below along with a verdict of the progress to date of specific deliverables.
Summary of industry's assessment of 10 Year Plan delivery
Last updated: Wed Jul 21 14:21:15 2004
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