Public money / Process explainer
A budget is the beginning.
Follow a public investment from approved funding to a service people can use.
Public-investment explainer · Published 24 October 2026
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Reading the visual
What to look for.
Read the stages as a practical evidence checklist. At each stage, ask what record would confirm progress and which institution is responsible for the next step.
SLPA explanatory framework. This is not a measured project pipeline or a fixed statutory sequence. Stages can overlap and differ across projects.
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Sources & method.
This is an SLPA explanatory framework, developed from our public-finance analysis. It separates authorisation, spending, completed work and public outcomes.
It contains no measured flow volumes or project-completion estimates. Use it as a checklist for the records needed to assess a public investment.