Member

This Government take seriously their commitment to investment, jobs and growth in every part of the UK. I have heard the concerns of my honourable friends the Members for Mid Cheshire, Andrew Cooper, and for Rossendale and Darwen, Andy MacNae, and the Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, Steve Rotheram, that past Governments have underinvested in towns and cities outside London and the south-east. They are right, so today I am publishing the conclusion of the review of the Treasury Green Book, which is the Government’s manual for assessing value for money. Our new Green Book will support place-based business cases, and make sure that no region has Treasury guidance wielded against it. I said that we would do things differently, and that we wanted growth in all parts of Britain, and I meant it.