{"id":165586,"date":"2026-09-10T13:32:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=165586"},"modified":"2026-09-10T13:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:32:59","slug":"ceca-submits-evidence-ahead-2026-autumn-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/ceca-submits-evidence-ahead-2026-autumn-budget\/165586\/","title":{"rendered":"CECA submits evidence ahead of 2026 Autumn Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Autumn Budget is coming on 26 October, and the CECA are among the first to have submitted evidence and their wishes for the construction industry<\/h2>\n<p>The 2026 Autumn Budget will be the first for chancellor John Healey, and predictions have thus far been few and far between for the most part.<\/p>\n<p>The Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) has submitted a representation to HM Treasury with recommendations to help the civil engineering construction sector.<\/p>\n<h3>Recommendations crafted from several workshops<\/h3>\n<p>The CECA has held several member engagement workshops to inform these recommendations and policy positions.<\/p>\n<p>They also argue that adopting the CECA\u2019s recommendations would support the UK\u2019s economic growth and productivity, delivering benefits to local communities and economies.<\/p>\n<p>The CECA\u2019s recommendations for the Treasury include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Protecting stable, long-term infrastructure investment and translating the 10-Year Infrastructure Strategy into a funded and sequenced delivery programme<\/li>\n<li>Resourcing the effective delivery of planning reforms to speed up infrastructure delivery<\/li>\n<li>Continually improving the UK Infrastructure Pipeline to provide contractors with practical, reliable, and long-term market certainty<\/li>\n<li>Urgently addressing the funding challenges in relation to skills provision across the infrastructure sector while safeguarding continuity in any reforms to the Industry Training Board system<\/li>\n<li>Supporting the speedy passage and implementation of the Commercial Payments Bill, including the prohibition of construction retentions and support for fairer payment terms<\/li>\n<li>Using the redraft of the Construction Playbook to deliver improvements in relation to early contractor involvement, the use of frameworks and to promote standard forms of contract<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Not much focus on construction, as of yet<\/h3>\n<p>Since the Burnham government took over, there has been little mention of the construction industry or support for it.<\/p>\n<p>One example is the chancellor&#8217;s Growth Speech, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/speeches\/chancellor-john-healeys-growth-speech-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">delivered earlier this week<\/a> (7 September), in which he promised to continue devolving powers to local leaders and said judicial reviews would now cover major infrastructure, including rail infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Since taking office, PM Andy Burnham has only briefly mentioned the industry, with his speech outside No. 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/construction-industry-reacts-to-andy-burnham-speech\/163875\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">briefly mentioning<\/a> building more council houses in a \u201cfair and sustainable\u201d way and re-industrialising industries that haven\u2019t recovered since the 1980\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Brian Berry, chief executive of the FMB, said: \u201cWith the fall in the number of new homes being built, Burnham needs to concentrate on rolling out a series of practical measures that will unlock the potential of the nation\u2019s small builders, which should include diversifying the housing market; tackling the construction skills shortage; supporting the rollout of energy efficiency upgrades of existing homes; and creating the business conditions needed for small businesses to thrive.<\/p>\n<p>Whether this, or any other issues, will be mentioned or targeted in the Autumn Budget remains to be seen, and the run-up to the budget on 28 October will likely be a time of more uncertainty for the industry as we wait with bated breath to see what\u2019s in store.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 Autumn Budget is looming, and the CECA are among the first construction organisations to submit evidence ahead of its reveal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":165587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[663,173384,908,276],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-165586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-planning-construction-news","8":"tag-autumn-budget","9":"tag-ceca","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-government"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CECA submits evidence ahead of 2026 Autumn Budget<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The 2026 Autumn Budget is looming, and the CECA are among the first construction organisations to submit evidence ahead of its reveal\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/ceca-submits-evidence-ahead-2026-autumn-budget\/165586\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CECA submits evidence ahead of 2026 Autumn Budget\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 2026 Autumn Budget is looming, and the CECA are among the first construction organisations to submit evidence ahead of its reveal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/ceca-submits-evidence-ahead-2026-autumn-budget\/165586\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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