Department for Transport’s Acceleration Unit

The Acceleration Unit’s mission is to speed-up the delivery of transport infrastructure projects and the implementation of policy initiatives and programmes to deliver against the government’s agenda to build back better, greener and faster from COVID-19, level up the UK and decarbonise transport.

Scope

The unit, an extended ministerial office, will work across several areas:

  • national infrastructure projects
  • local infrastructure acceleration
  • policy initiatives and programmes
  • capital programmes

Functions

  • identify, evaluate and plan ways to compress process, planning, procurement and delivery to ensure faster delivery of infrastructure programmes and projects
  • deep dive to understand barriers and blockages to projects and how these could be removed
  • challenge system inefficiency with radical ideas
  • investigate and support projects where delivery is slipping or too slow
  • be an active unblocker of projects that are stuck
  • source new ideas and develop new initiatives to deliver against the government’s objectives
  • commission external advice and research

Accountability

The unit reports directly to the Transport Secretary.

Expert panel

  • Mark Reynolds, Chief Executive, Mace
  • Chris Taylor, Director of Complex Infrastructure, Highways England
  • Emma Howard-Boyd, Chair, Environment Agency
  • Robbie Owen, Partner, Pinsents Mason
  • Rhian-Mari Thomas, Chief Executive, Green Finance Institute
  • Rachel Skinner, President / Executive Director, ICE / WSP
  • Mike Putnam, Non-Executive Director, Network Rail
  • Dev Amratia, Chief Executive, nPlan
  • Dr Graham Hoare, Chairman, Ford of Britain
  • Mark Howard, Head of Research and Technology, Business Development and Partnerships, Airbus
  • Mark Mathieson, Director of Innovation and Co-Chief Executive, McLaren Applied Technologies
  • Dick Elsy, Chief Executive, HVM Catapult
  • Mike Dobby, Vice Chairman, Deloitte (Retired)
  • David Waboso, Head of Digital Railway, Network Rail (Retired)
  • Tony Poulter, Non-Executive Director, Department for Transport

Acceleration Unit – expert panel terms of reference

Acceleration Unit – expert panel terms of reference

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