UK-Governance · From national purpose to completed work
Transformation Projects
The Mission describes the country Britain should become. The Rolling Fifteen-Year Plan establishes objectives and priorities. Transformation Projects are the defined, funded and accountable programmes through which those objectives are turned into results.
What makes a Transformation Project?
A national ambition is not yet a project. A project exists only when the need, intended outcome, alternatives, scope, cost, risks, funding, leadership and milestones have been established sufficiently for an accountable decision.
Ideas listed on this page therefore carry different states of maturity. Publication does not imply approval or funding. It makes the developing work visible and exposes it to scrutiny.
Proposals would be developed through the Project Development & Management Authority (PDMA). The PDMA would act as the intelligent client: maintaining the engineering, commercial and project-management capability needed to test options, challenge suppliers and manage approved work across departmental and political boundaries.
The development path
Define
Establish the problem, evidence, baseline and required outcome.
Develop
Identify credible alternatives, dependencies, risks and whole-life costs.
Decide
Compare options, confirm affordability and obtain political and, where required, public authority.
Deliver
Fund and manage the approved work through named, accountable leadership.
Verify
Confirm completion and measure whether the promised national benefits were achieved.
Initial Transformation Projects register
This opening register reflects the present state of the UK-Governance programme. It will develop as evidence, options, costs and priorities are established.
| Project | Intended outcome | Present status | Next development task |
|---|---|---|---|
| Civil Service restructuring | A Civil Service organised for specialist capability, continuity, accountability and delivery. | Initial proposition published | Develop the transition plan, organisational interfaces, costs and legislative requirements. |
| Direct democracy | A secure and trusted means for citizens to decide important long-term national questions. | In development | Complete the constitutional, operational, assurance and implementation design. |
| Project Development & Management Authority | A permanent intelligent-client capability for developing and delivering national transformation. | Initial proposition published | Compare institutional models and define powers, governance, staffing, transition and cost. |
| Mission-Focused Budgeting | Public expenditure aligned with agreed national outcomes and transformation funded without additional debt. | Initial proposition published | Complete the committed-and-flexible expenditure baseline and test funding mechanisms. |
| Armed Forces expansion | Armed Forces of the strength, readiness and capability required by the national defence assessment. | In development | Define force requirements, personnel growth, equipment, estates, industrial capacity, cost and sequence. |
| Industrial recovery | Rebuild domestic productive capacity in sectors essential to security, resilience and prosperity. | In development | Select strategic capabilities and assess markets, skills, energy, supply chains and investment requirements. |
| BBC integrity reset | Public-service broadcasting worthy of greater confidence in its accuracy, impartiality and accountability. | Definition required | Establish the evidence, governance alternatives and independent measures of public confidence. |
| Health and care reboot | Better patient care and access, shaped by front-line experience and supported by rigorous financial and procurement control. | Definition required | Begin with staff working on ward and theatre floors, patients and carers; establish the operational and financial baseline. |
| Infrastructure renewal | Reliable road, rail, electricity and water systems with sufficient capacity for national needs. | Definition required | Establish asset condition, maintenance backlogs, capacity constraints and the order of intervention. |
| Borders and small boats | Effective border control and timely, lawful resolution of cases. | In development | Publish the small-boats study as the first options analysis and test its legal, operational and financial assumptions. |
| Skills, work and young people | Reduce the number of young people outside education, employment or training and rebuild routes into skilled work. | Definition required | Establish the baseline, regional differences and links with defence, industry and infrastructure projects. |
| Housing delivery | Increase suitable housing supply and improve affordability. | Definition required | Define need, constraints, infrastructure dependencies, delivery alternatives and measures of affordability. |
Choosing the order of work
Most of the Mission is urgent, but the projects cannot all proceed at the same speed. The order must reflect national benefit, urgency, dependencies, feasibility, risk, available capability and funding. The Analytic Network Process will help assess those relationships transparently—for example, the dependence of defence expansion upon industry, skills, energy and infrastructure.
ANP will inform priority-setting; it will not conceal judgement behind a calculation. The criteria, evidence, scores and reasons for the final decision should be published.
Rules for every approved project
One accountable leader
A named project leader remains responsible for delivery and for reporting material changes.
One approved baseline
Scope, cost, timetable, risks and intended benefits are recorded before commitment.
Whole-life affordability
Implementation and continuing operating costs are funded before work is authorised.
Visible performance
Progress, expenditure, risks, changes and achieved benefits are reported against the approved case.
Controlled change
Material changes require an updated case and renewed authority rather than quiet alteration of the baseline.
Independent scrutiny
Evidence, procurement, expenditure and results are open to technical and financial examination.