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By Jordan Marshall2021-03-03T19:32:00+00:00
Take a look at some of the key policy announcements for construction
A national infrastructure bank, ongoing covid-19 support and a longer than expected stamp duty holiday extension were all among the headlines from today’s budget.
Speaking in the House of Commons this afternoon chancellor Rishi Sunak made several announcements that are sure to impact construction.
Here are some of the key measures that will affect architects, their collaborators and clients.
Rishi Sunak made several policy announcements that will be significant for construction
Sunak confirmed the furlough scheme will be extended until the end of September with no changes to the terms. Employees will continue to receive 80% of their salary for hours not worked until the scheme ends. Employers will be asked to contribute 10% of this amount from July and 20% from August. Sunak said the furlough extension was to “accommodate even the most cautious view about
We start the year with the usual problem around unitarization. Not the lumpenproblem of what to do and how to govern the great swathes of retro (not metro) England. The recovery and devolution white paper can, which has been kicked down the road to the year’s end, may resolve this in some dilute form.
No, it’s Anglo-Saxon attitudes and the 10
th century unitarisation of England and the inescapable problems jerry-built into the foundations of our ramshackle early modern constitution. Hence the creaking perils of keeping an unhappy domestic union intact one full year after the UK divorced from the European Union.
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