Contents
Foreword 5
1. Introduction: planning for the long term 6
Publicly funded infrastructure investment: planning for the long term 6
Policy certainty for private investors 9
Transforming financing 10
Ensuring delivery: learning from success 10
2. Roads 14
A legacy of underinvestment 14
The Government's commitment to roads 18
Ending the backlog in road repairs 18
Transforming the network 18
Protecting the environment 19
Reforming the Highways Agency 19
3. Rail 20
Upgrading the rail network 21
Bringing rail into the 21st century 24
Upgrading London's rail infrastructure 26
4. Energy 28
Gas-fired electricity generation and the capacity market 30
Low-carbon generation and contracts for difference 31
Shale gas: the context 32
Shale gas in the UK 32
Shale gas: government actions 33
The Green Investment Bank 34
Enabling new nuclear power stations 35
5. Science and innovation 36
Science and innovation in the global race 36
Creating partnerships for growth 37
Translating scientific excellence into commercial success 37
The Government's commitment to science 38
Future funding 38
6. Housing 40
Support for home ownership 41
Land supply, asset sales and planning reform 42
Supporting capital investment in new housing 43
Local incentives to promote growth 44
Simplification and de-regulation 44
7. Digital communications 45
Growth in the UK digital economy 45
The Government's strategic approach to the digital economy 46
Fixed Broadband 47
Mobile broadband 48
Long-term digital communications strategy 48
8. Long-term approaches in other sectors 49
Aviation 50
Water 51
Education 51
Health and Social Care 52
Culture 52
Flood defences 53
Prisons 54
Investing to save 54
9. Local growth and the Devolved Administrations 56
Enabling local and private sector growth 56
City Deals 57
Enterprise Zones 59
Regional Growth Fund 59
Growth Deals and the Single Local Growth Fund 59
Strategic economic plans 62
Devolved administrations 62
10. Infrastructure delivery and finance 64
Focusing on the long term 65
Infrastructure finance 65
Transforming Government's approach to infrastructure delivery 66
Department for Transport 67
Department for Culture, Media and Sport 68
Department of Energy and Climate Change 68
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 68
Project scrutiny and assurance 68
Next steps 68
A. Roads programme 70
Table 1.A: Government long-term spending plans 9
Table 1.B: Departmental Capital Budgets (Capital DEL) 12
Table 4.A: Draft strike prices for renewable technologies 31
Table 9.A: Funding announced at Spending Round for the Single Local Growth Fund 59
Table 9.B: Total resources under the strategic influence of Local Enterprise Partnerships and City Deals, 2012-13 to 2020-21 61
Table A.1: National roads projects completed, under construction or due to start this Parliament 70
Table A.2: Local transport schemes completed, under construction or due to start this Parliament 71
Table A.3: Feasibility studies this Government will undertake 73
Table A.4: Pipeline of HA road schemes which the Government is committed to funding as part of this Spending Round, subject to value for money and deliverability 73
Table A.5: Pipeline of further HA managed motorway schemes which the Government is committed to funding, subject to finalisation of the options and consideration of their business case and deliverability 74
Table A.6: Pipeline HA road schemes which the Government is committed to funding subject to finalisation of options and agreement being reached on developer contributions 74
Figure 1.A: Long-term capital investment 13
Figure 2.A: Congestion on the road network in 2010 16
Figure 2.B: Forecast congestion on the road network in 2040 17
Figure 3.A: Britain's future high speed rail network 25
Figure 9.A: Local Enterprise Partnerships in England 58
Charts
Chart 2.A: Government investment in the strategic road network since 1960 15
Chart 3.A: Changes in rail network length and passenger usage since 1946 21
Chart 7.A: UK internet data usage 46
Boxes
Box 3.A: Enhancements to the railway network in the period 2014-19 23