Geoff White
The sectors covered by professionals of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) are central to the government’s pledge to tackle the housing shortage, the infrastructure deficit, low industrial growth and poor productivity. In each of these areas there are two issues that we must confront, with urgency: skills and labour shortages; and investor confidence. If we do not take action on both, then the government’s ambitions will be either delayed or at worst, they will come to naught.