Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many recommendations from the Farmer Review of the UK Constrction Model have been (a) fully and (b) partly accepted or implemented to date.

The recommendations made in Mark Farmer’s review of the UK Construction Labour Model are directed at the construction industry, its clients and Government. Government supports the implementation, in full or in part, of nine (from a total of ten) of the headline recommendations of the Review. This is set out in detail in a Ministerial letter to the Construction Leadership Council of 19 July 2017:

http://www.constructionleadershipcouncil.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Government-Response-to-the-Farmer-Review_19-July-2017.pdf

Since July, further developments include publication of a review of the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) and CITB’s own reform plan (6 and 15 November); the announcement of £34m for construction skills as part of the National Retraining Scheme and a ‘presumption in favour of offsite’ (by 2019) across five major procuring Departments, both in the Autumn Budget; and the announcement of a Sector Deal for construction in the Industrial Strategy White Paper (27 November).

In addition, the Construction Leadership Council continues to support the agenda set out in the Farmer Review through its innovation, business models and skills work streams.