Posted on:
20th May, 2026
Business Board Chair Backs CBI Infrastructure Report
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) published a timely report on how the UK can plug the infrastructure gap and overcome the current challenges to make sure infrastructure investment works to boost growth.
The report - Pipeline to Progress: Making UK Infrastructure Investable - was launched at the UK Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum, UKREiiF where a number of our Business Board leaders are also running a series of network events on related issues from investment in Cumbria and Maritime Gateways to investment in coastal communities and the Oxford Cambridge Growth Corridor).
The report sets out how reformed public-private partnerships can unlock long-term investment in the schools, hospitals and civic infrastructure the UK needs to grow, and makes a number of specific key recommendations to support this.
If the UK is serious about closing its infrastructure gap and supporting sustainable growth, delivery reform cannot be optional. The recommendations in the report are intended to help the government move decisively from ambition to execution, in partnership with business, communities and investors alike.
Backing the report's conclusions, Business Board Network Chair, Mark Bretton said:
"The CBI’s ‘Pipeline to Progress’ report on investment infrastructure comes right on cue amid the update on how not to do it, with the costs and delays of HS2.
"Thankfully, this report offers excellent insight and solutions to help ensure that example is not repeated. Closing the infrastructure investment gap is essential for national and local growth. But this must be done effectively, ideally, as the CBI suggest, through a clear and coordinated interface between Public Private Partnerships.
"Business Boards can be a vital part in helping do that and the Business Board Network already plays its part in facilitating that interface – acting as supporters of public-private investment to ensure more stable, consistent, value for money delivery. In short, acting as one of the tools of delivery excellence and UK capability uplift that the CBI speak of – Government need to recognise this, I hope ministers consider the report’s conclusions.”
A full copy of the report is available here.
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