Contributions to the review of the Department of Infrastructure will be restricted, MHKs have been told.

Chief Minister Howard Quayle confirmed there had been no specific media release announcing the review, which is being conducted by Beamans.

He said reference to a review into the capability and capacity of the DoI was published in the Courier Budget supplement.

It was also published on the government website on March 9.

In the House of Keys, Jason Moorhouse (Arbory, Castletown and Malew) asked why it had been ’so tightly managed’.

Mr Quayle replied: ’While clearly many members and other stakeholders will wish to contribute to the review I have asked that the opportunity to comment is restricted to those that have direct experience of the operation of the department.’

He said this would include the department’s current and ex-members in the current administration and members of the environment and infrastructure policy review committee - and this would enable the review to be completed in a ’timely manner’.

’I didn’t want something that is War and Peace. I think 17 members of Keys will have some form of involvement and the report will be published,’ said Mr Quayle.

Lawrie Hooper (LibVan, Ramsey) queried when the scope of the review had been broadened beyond capital investment and property maintenance projects as had been outlined in the Budget. He suggested that DoI service users should be allowed to contribute to the review.

Mr Quayle replied that if Beamans felt the need to take evidence from service users then he ’would of course sanction that’.

The terms of reference make it clear that this is not a review of the effectiveness of DoI’s operations.

Rather, it is a review of the ’effectiveness of department’s management and governance arrangements for managing the interface with its various operational divisions, services and clients’.

In particular, it will explore how ’existing management and organisational arrangements could be improved to provide more effective governance and accountability’.

It will also examine the department’s ability to assume responsibility for capital projects.

The review follows concerns over the delivery and management of capital projects across government, a great many of which are managed by the DoI.

A Major Projects Unit is being created within the Cabinet Office to take responsibility for the delivery of major projects with a value of more than £3m.

Beamans aims to complete its review of the DoI by April 30.