Today's entry reports on the government's infrastructure
announcements that formed part of the 'Spending Round
2013'.
A day later than Chancellor Jeffrey Osborne's Spending Round
speech on Wednesday, his deputy Danny Alexander announced how
spending on infrastructure was to be allocated over the next
parliament. The announcements are contained in a document
entitled 'Investing in Britain's future'.
The document is signed by Osborne and Alexander, but clearly has
the imprint of Infrastructure UK and new infrastructure minister
Lord Deighton on it - indeed the document's filename is
'PU1524_IUK_new_template.pdf'.
The main announcement is a commitment to spending £100bn
on infrastructure during the lifetime of the next Parliament, i.e.
2015-20. Of course that depends on the coalition being
re-elected in 2015 - it's not clear that any other combination
of one or more parties would stick to the plan.
