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HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyThe key thing I will point my hon. Friend to is the role of the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority sitting in the Treasury. The assessment on delivery,…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyWhen this Government came to power, we were elected on a promise to deliver a decade of national renewal, and from day one, we have worked to fulfil that promise. Less than a year…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyI thank the hon. Member for her question. Without wanting to go through the entire infrastructure strategy or spending review, there is significant money coming to all parts of…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to point out the failure of other Governments—both the previous Government at Westminster and the current Government in Scotland. When preparing…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyI remember them very fondly, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am grateful for your support, and for that of the shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury in his statements today. He has asked…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyI congratulate my hon. Friend on being so successful in securing so much investment in his constituency. I am sure his constituents will be deeply indebted to him now and in…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyThat was a stream of slightly incoherent questions, if I may say so. I point the hon. Gentleman to the document that we have published today, which does mention Scotland quite a…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyI agree very much with my hon. Friend. Next week I will be meeting finance Ministers from the devolved Governments in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. We will put forward…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyI politely point the hon. Member to the fact that previously there were two functions in Government, and I have closed both of them and created one, so we are actually down by…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyI thank the hon. Member for raising those important points. Adaptation and sustainable development are at the heart of this infrastructure strategy, and they have to be for all…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyI thank my hon. Friend for raising the Ely junction. The great thing about the multi-year spending review in the 10-year strategy is that the Department for Transport and its…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyI agree with my hon. Friend on our extremely ambitious plans for council houses—or social and affordable houses, as we call them now. He will know that I, too, grew up in a…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyI thank the hon. Member for his question. He will know that the Government have renewed our commitment to regional airport capacity, with plans for a national policy statement to…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyThere is a key difference: under the last Government, Wales did not get a penny, but under this Labour Government, working with the Labour Government in Wales, it has had not only…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. One of the challenges that I learned on coming into government is that the last Government did not even ask what the maintenance backlog was in…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyI thank the hon. Member for his question. As he will have seen from the Chancellor’s previous statements, we are increasing investment in transport—whether rail, road or…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyI am sure that the hon. Gentleman makes a very good case, which Ministers in the Department for Transport will need to answer, but I am pleased to know that the Liberal Democrats…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyI will give a shorter answer, given the time available. We will be setting out further detail shortly about where we will be piloting these place-based business cases. It is a new…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyMy hon. Friend is right to highlight the legacy issue of poor planning. NISTA, our new centre of expertise in the Treasury that is implementing the strategy, has been given the…19 Jun 2025HANSARD UK Infrastructure: 10-year StrategyThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I thank my hon. Friend for his question and for championing not just his own constituency, but the region in which it sits. He is right to raise…19 Jun 2025