Oh, to be young again and just starting out on a career in construction. Granted, I’d be caught in a contest between climate change, AI and an ever-growing number of hostile states to see which could kill me first - but then over the hill comes salvation in the form of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government with an offer to help me “thrive”.

That is the promise of the Call for Evidence launched by the Department on the future of “the professions, trades and occupations” working in construction - and as big a job creation scheme for civil servants as I’ve seen since the “one in, two out” approach towards regulatory control introduced by the Coalition Government in 2010, and then abandoned.