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<p>This government is committed to ensuring that every part of the country has modern
and efficient infrastructure.</p><p> </p><p>Our spending plans are helping to support
investments such as the largest strategic road programme ever, over £1 billion to
help stimulate the market to build the next generation of digital infrastructure and
the biggest rail modernisation since the Victorian era.</p><p> </p><p>Our investment
is supporting projects across the country. We are delivering more than £13 billion
of investment in the North, improving connectivity through projects like the Manchester
to Ordsall rail link and investing in communities with schemes such as the £337 million
funding for new trains on the Tyne and Wear Metro.</p><p> </p><p>We are also investing
in transformative projects to boost capacity – for instance, HS2 will provide fast,
frequent and reliable connections between 8 out of 10 of Britain’s largest cities
and their regions.</p><p> </p><p>For further information, a regional breakdown of
per-capita central government transport spend in England from 2017/18-2020/21 can
be found on page 45 of the 2017 Analysis of the National Infrastructure and Construction
Pipeline: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/665332/Analysis_of_National_Infrastructure_and_Construction_Pipeline_2017.pdf"
target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/665332/Analysis_of_National_Infrastructure_and_Construction_Pipeline_2017.pdf</a>.
The North-West will receive the highest level of investment of any English ONS region.</p>
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