Member

Another example—which I will not dwell on, because my noble friend Lord Fuller will want to talk about it—is the upfront funding and financing of development corporations. In Cambridge, which is not part of the new towns programme but will, none the less, be the location of one of the Government’s priority new towns, £400 million of funding for infrastructure was announced, which was extremely welcome. The question is whether other new towns will have upfront funding for infrastructure after the Budget, which, in the view of the New Towns Taskforce, is an essential component of what is required for the new towns programme.