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<p>The National Infrastructure Strategy is due to be published later in the autumn.</p><p>
</p><p>The Government has taken a number of major steps to increase infrastructure
investment in recent years. The Treasury introduced the £37bn National Productivity
Investment Fund (NPIF) to establish additional capital spending for areas critical
for improving productivity, including economic infrastructure, R&D and housing.
Transport investment will increase by 50% from 2015 to 2020. And more broadly, public
sector net investment is due to reach levels not sustained in 40 years.</p><p> </p><p>As
set out in Spending Round 2019, the Government will announce its ambitious plans for
future capital spending later in the autumn, alongside publication of the National
Infrastructure Strategy.</p>
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