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- ↑ "Policy paper: Transforming Infrastructure Performance: Roadmap to 2030 Published 13 September 2021". IPA. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
- ↑ Labour vows to break ‘inertia’ of UK infrastructure delivery, Financial Times. 23 May 2024.
- ↑ Gayne, Daniel (24 May 2024). "Labour would merge National Infrastructure Commission and Infrastructure and Projects Authority". Building. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
