In this column on 16 september last year, I described the background to the 2004 review of the Construction Act, and how the process worked in practice. Four months later, the industry has been able to see the latest official summary of the comments received by the DTI, and also to read some more specific proposals by ministers. Some of the policy announcements are different from those floated in the March 2005 consultation document. We are now promised a further DTI consultation paper "in spring 2006", with government "conclusions" in summer 2006 "in time for" the 2006/7 parliamentary session. I use quotation marks deliberately, because none of the timescales originally intended have been met so far, and I doubt if these later ones will, either.
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