Build UK Daily Update

Source - Build UK

The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has written to the Prime Minister thanking him for the Government’s support to date and setting out a range of further measures that would help to support the construction sector at this time. These include suspending PAYE and CIS tax due in April and May, deferring or cancelling the Apprenticeship Levy, releasing retention monies held by the public sector, and extending business continuity grants.

In his open letter to the UK construction sector earlier this week, Alok Sharma, the Secretary of State for Business Energy & Industrial Strategy, confirmed that the Site Operating Procedures published by the CLC are aligned with Public Health England (PHE) guidance and required to be implemented in the workplace.

In response to feedback, the Site Operating Procedures ‐ Version 2 has now been published to include:

• Clarification that, where it is not possible or safe for workers to distance themselves from each other by 2 metres, work should not be carried out.
• The request from Transport for London (TfL) to avoid using the tube network during peak times.
• Updates from PHE to reference:
  1.    Those living with someone who has shown signs of COVID‐19 infection
  2.    Those living with someone who is shielding
  3.    60%+ alcohol‐based hand sanitiser
  4.    Keeping groups of workers together to minimise transfer of infection across the workforce.
• The need to monitor implementation of the procedures.

Read Build UK's latest statement which provides details of further guidance to support businesses.