Research and Reports

Industrial strategy: Building a Britain fit for the future

“We must make sure our infrastructure choices not only provide the basics for the economy, they must actively support our long-term productivity, providing greater certainty and clear strategic direction,” says this much-anticipated white paper. It says there is a commitment to increasing infrastructure investment, and references High Speed 2 as being “transformational”. The paper reports that the National Productivity Investment Fund will be extended to 2022/23 and increased from £23bn to £31bn - as well as saying that “public infrastructure investment will have doubled in a decade by 2022/23”.