National Infrastructure Assessment

Each Assessment analyses the UK’s long term economic infrastructure needs, outlining a strategic vision over the next thirty years and setting out recommendations for how identified needs should be met.

The Commission is now working on the second National Infrastructure Assessment, to be published in autumn 2023.

To start the process the Commission published a Baseline Report in November 2021 which summarises the current performance of key infrastructure sectors. Use the buttons above to click through and read the Baseline Report and access the separate annexes for each sector.

The Baseline Report uses this data, alongside social research, to establish the main priorities the Commission intends to explore in the next Assessment.

These studies will focus on three key strategic outcomes:

• reaching net zero
• reducing environmental impacts and adapting to a changing climate
• supporting levelling up.

The Commission has launched a Call for Evidence on the study topics, to inform its scoping and research phase. The closing date for submissions is 4 February 2022.

It will continue to engage with stakeholders throughout the analysis phase and plans to hold both virtual and physical events to discuss its emerging work.

The final Assessment report and recommendations to government will be published in the second half of 2023.

Get involved

In this short video, our Chair Sir John Armitt and Commissioners Andy Green and Sadie Morgan explain what the Baseline Report is and how stakeholders can get involved by answering the questions in the Call for Evidence in the report and helping inform the Commission’s work.

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Use this form to below to register with us to receive periodic updates on the progress of the second Assessment.