The Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) is the United Kingdom government's centre of expertise for infrastructure and major projects. The IPA sits at the heart of government, reporting to the

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and

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. The core teams include experts in infrastructure, project delivery and project finance who work with government departments and industry. The IPA supports the successful delivery of all types of infrastructure and major projects; ranging from railways, schools, hospitals and housing, to defence, IT and major transformation programmes. The IPA leads the project delivery and project finance professions across government. The IPA was formed in 2016 by the merger of

Infrastructure UK Infrastructure UK (IUK) was a division of HM Treasury within the Treasury's Public Services and Growth Directorate, which advised the UK government on the long-term infrastructure needs of the UK and provided commercial expertise to support major ...

(IUK) and the Major Projects Authority (MPA). The IPA Chief Executive was

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until July 2019, when he was replaced by

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. IUK was established in 2010 to support major infrastructure projects involving public sector capital; and the MPA was established in 2011 with a mandate to oversee and assure the largest government projects. In December 2017 the IPA issued the ''

Transforming Infrastructure Performance Transforming Infrastructure Performance is a British government report on the UK construction industry. Issued by the Infrastructure and Projects Authority in December 2017, its aim is to improve productivity in the sector and make savings of £15 ...

'' report aimed at achieving annual savings of £15 billion per year in infrastructure procurement by increasing collaboration and innovation. On 13 September 2021, a follow-up report, ''Transforming Infrastructure Performance: Roadmap to 2030'', was published alongside the ''National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline'' forecasting £650bn investment in UK infrastructure over the next decade.

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