31 March 2026 snapshot Published by NISTA · analysed 15 July 2026
Year-on-year changes
in UK major projects
ProjectLens links seven annual Government Major Projects Portfolio releases project by project. You can see which ratings and end dates moved, where the published signals disagree and where each figure came from.
Published portfolioOfficial releases
170 matched to last year35 across all 7 releases
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Ranking combines published delivery confidence, year-on-year movement, end-date movement and in-year variance. It sets a review order and does not predict outcomes.
Rating changes across the portfolio
A project can improve its rating while its published end date moves later. The chart shows both.
Mixed signals
Better rating, later finish
Themes in the published narratives
A fixed keyword list groups the narratives into themes. A theme does not show the root cause.
Outcome follow-up register43 records left.
43 records left.
NISTA reports 42.
Stable-ID comparison finds one more absent record than the annual report's leaver total. That may reflect an identifier or classification difference. Absence is not evidence of delivery success or failure.
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| Priority | Project | Published DCA | Movement | End-date change | Published themes | Watch |
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Method
How ProjectLens
ranks projects
ProjectLens compares dates, ratings and variances with fixed rules. Theme tagging uses a fixed keyword list.
Acquire
Seven official GMPP CSV releases are retained unchanged with links to the source publication.
Match
Stable GMPP identifiers create longitudinal histories. Missing identifiers are kept but marked unmatchable.
Compare
Rating transitions, published end-date movements and annual forecast variances are calculated exactly.
Organise
A visible keyword taxonomy groups narrative signals into eight review themes.
Attention score
Points for each published signal
The score adds points for the clearest published signals. It sets a review order and does not predict project outcomes or a probability of failure.
+35Current Red published DCA
+25Rating worsened
up to +20Later end date
up to +15Material in-year variance
−8No published evidence excerpt
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What this cannot tell you
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These official sources could add a further layer of evidence. ProjectLens keeps them separate so it does not present a general source as evidence about one project.
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