Construction people like Tories – but don’t rate political parties!
21st April 2015

The Conservatives have take a strong lead in a poll of construction people – but an even bigger majority have given a vote of no confidence to all the key parties.

The message comes from a survey by UK construction week which shows 54% think the Conservatives would be best for the industry but 71% feel the needs of the industry have been ignored by all the key parties.
 
On the choice of parties, the results place Labour at 30%, while the Green Party has pushed ahead of the Liberal Democrats, coming in at 6 and 4% respectively.  UKIP managed to claim 4% of the vote, with SNP and Plaid Cymru jointly accounting for the remaining 2%.

When asked to look more closely at the policies they feel would positively benefit the industry, two key themes emerged: house building and skills.  The Help To Buy programme was overwhelmingly highlighted as the most important recent initiative in boosting construction industry growth, receiving 67% of the vote.

Interestingly, the coalition government’s flagship energy efficiency programmes the Green Deal and the Energy Company Obligation achieved just 9 and 5% of the responses, while the key sustainability programmes the Renewable Heat Incentive and Feed In Tariff each received just 4%.

Richard Morey, Group Events Director at Media 10, the event company producing UK Construction Week, said: “The survey results are interesting because they appear to show that the industry feels let down by the main political parties. Despite the fact that construction has been the main driver behind the UK’s economic recovery, the needs of the industry have been given very little attention in the run up to the election.”

www.ukconstructionweek.com