{"id":74244,"date":"2020-04-01T12:52:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T11:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=74244"},"modified":"2023-03-11T10:24:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T10:24:50","slug":"protect-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/protect-construction\/74244\/","title":{"rendered":"CLC chair urges government to better protect construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Andy Mitchell, chair of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionleadershipcouncil.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Construction Leadership Council<\/a>, has sent a letter to PM Boris Johnson putting forward a plan to sustain the industry and accelerate economic recovery<\/h2>\n<p>Within the letter, Mitchell reveals how the construction sector is \u2018already working together to respond to the impact of the coronavirus\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He warns that in order to sustain the industry over the coming weeks and months, there \u2018needs clear support and recognition from the government for the essential work that it is doing, and the role it is playing in supporting public services and keeping the economy functioning.\u2019<\/p>\n<h3>Mitchell outlined the work already put in place to support the industry, including:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/covid-19-site-procedures\/73750\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Site Operating Procedures<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>The Safe Shutdown Process;<\/li>\n<li>We have prepared a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/essential-construction-work\/73973\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minimum Essential Works List<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>Producing a Covid19 Essential Worker Authorisation Letter;<\/li>\n<li>An appeal to the industry to donate surplus Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the NHS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the letter, he wrote: \u201cThe construction industry also needs clear support and recognition from the government for the essential work that it is doing, and the role it is playing in supporting public services and keeping the economy functioning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor understandable reasons, we are seeing the closure of key construction product and material manufacturers, in parallel with the closure of electrical, plumbing and general builders\u2019 merchants, and there is the very real prospect of many of the essential works not being able to be done, or unduly delayed, by difficulties in securing products and materials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ask therefore that you and your ministers give very clear and visible encouragement that the production of building materials continues, if at all possible, and that electrical, plumbing and general <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/builders-merchants-stay-open\/73828\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">builders\u2019 merchants remain open<\/a> so that essential maintenance and construction works can continue \u2013 and that the workers doing this are recognised, supported and appreciated.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>To protect construction businesses, Mitchell has asked Johnson to consider the following measures:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>In addition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/coronavirus-job-retention-scheme-2\/73823\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Job Retention Scheme<\/a>, suspending PAYE and CIS tax due to HMRC in April and May for construction and consultancy firms and workers, with no financial penalty. This will relieve some immediate cashflow challenges, and give companies time to secure the support of measures that the government has established;<\/li>\n<li>Deferring\/cancelling Apprenticeship <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/levy-collection-suspended\/73950\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Levy payments<\/a> due for the duration of the crisis. Whilst firms in the sector are committed to retaining apprentices, and in the longer-term increasing the number of these, whilst the current restrictions are in place it is not possible for firms to train apprentices. This would further reduce cash flow pressure, but without affecting the longer-term provision of funding for apprenticeships;<\/li>\n<li>We welcome the guidance on flexibilities in public procurement rules provided by Policy Procurement Notice 02\/20: Supplier relief due to COVID-19, but urge Ministers to continue to encourage all public sector clients, regulated utilities and firms in the private sector working on public infrastructure to expedite cashflow through the supply chain, by making use of these;<\/li>\n<li>Support for the Directors of micro-businesses. There are many directors of small building firms and consultancies who pay themselves a small salary, and top this up through dividend payments. These currently fall between the support provided by the Job Retention Scheme and through the assistance for the self-employed announced last week. This is a problem for other sectors too, and it would be welcome if the Government could ensure these Directors would be able to access support from one of these schemes;<\/li>\n<li>Retention release &#8211; it is estimated that throughout the industry there is \u00a34.5bn held by clients and firms in the supply chain) in the form of cash retentions, which is a routine withholding of between 1% to 5% of each regular payment to be released upon successful completion of the works without defects. There will, no doubt, be some strong opinions over this, but were the Government to direct all Government bodies to release all retention monies held this would inject cash at all levels of the construction supply chain;<\/li>\n<li>Extend the \u00a325k SME business continuity grants scheme to the construction sector.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mitchell concluded: \u201cThere is much work also being done to make sure that the construction industry can play its full role in supporting a strong economic recovery, and the CLC is working closely with the IPA and BEIS to do the very best possible for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Mitchell, chair of the Construction Leadership Council, has sent a letter to PM Boris Johnson putting forward a plan to sustain the industry and accelerate economic recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"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":[676,54592,283,276,18288,621],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[172176],"class_list":{"0":"post-74244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-coronavirus","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-government","11":"tag-hmrc","12":"tag-sme"},"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>CLC chair urges government to better protect construction<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Andy Mitchell has sent a letter to PM Boris Johnson putting forward a plan to sustain the industry and accelerate economic recovery\" \/>\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\/protect-construction\/74244\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COVID-19: CLC chair urges government to better protect construction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Andy Mitchell, chair of the Construction Leadership Council, has sent a letter to PM Boris Johnson putting forward a plan to sustain the industry and accelerate economic recovery\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/protect-construction\/74244\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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