Budget 2020: £600bn to be pumped into UK infrastructure in 'biggest programme of public investing ever'

£4.2bn to be spent on urban transport

Lauren Mason
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has today (11 March) announced £640bn of gross capital investment into the UK's roads, railways schools, hospitals and power networks by the end of the Parliamentary term, in a cash injection that will be "triple the average over the last 40 years in real terms".

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