Lilian Greenwood – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2015-11-02.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his Department’s press release, Infrastructure at heart of Spending Review as Chancellor launches National Infrastructure Commission, published on 30 October 2015, what transport projects are included in the £100 billion infrastructure spending; and what the projected spend on those projects is in each year to 2020-21.

Greg Hands

The £100 billion of infrastructure spending includes publically-funded infrastructure projects and programmes in the National Infrastructure Pipeline. The Pipeline is a strategic view of economic infrastructure investment.

Transport projects and programmes include:

• Network Rail’s Control Period 5 (2014-2019), currently being re-planned by the Chairman, Sir Peter Hendy
• Highway England’s Road Investment Strategy (2015-2020)
• High Speed 2
• Transport for London’s centrally-funded investment programme
• Centrally-funded Local Authority transport projects
  

  Details of the projected annual spend to 2020-21 can be found in the most recent refresh of the Pipeline, published in July 2015.