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FMB calls for licensing of construction firms

The Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has unveiled plans for the mandatory licensing scheme for all UK construction companies to transform the sector into a high-quality and professional industry.

A new Construction Licensing Task Force, supported by leading industry bodies, is at the centre of the licensing scheme. More than three-quarters of small and medium-sized (SME) construction firms support the introduction of licensing to professionalise the industry, protect consumers and side-line unprofessional and incompetent building firms; and 78 per cent of consumers want a licensing scheme for construction introduced.

The decision to establish a Construction Licensing Task Force follows a recommendation in Licence to build: A pathway to licensing UK construction, an independent research report published in 2018, which detailed the benefits of introducing a licensing scheme for the whole construction industry and put forward a proposal for how it could work.

The Task Force will be chaired by Liz Peace CBE, former chief executive of the British Property Federation.

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