Infrastructure: Capital Investment
(asked on 9th November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total allocation of infrastructure investment in each of the regional growth deals to each region in England, and what is the estimated population of each region.
The government has made over £7 billion of Local Growth funding available to Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) across England to create the infrastructure they need and invest in their other priorities to unlock growth. Opportunities to boost productivity are best identified by those with detailed local knowledge, and this funding is spent by LEPs in line with regional priorities.
The award of Growth Deal investment in each Local Enterprise Partnerships region has been published on the gov.uk website and is available in pdf form https://www.gov.uk/government/news/growth-deals-gain-momentum-firing-up-local-economies>. Estimated regional populations provided by the Office for National Statistics are below.
Estimated Regional Population
Name | Estimated Population mid-2015 |
North East | 2,624,621 |
North West | 7,173,835 |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 5,390,576 |
East Midlands | 4,677,038 |
West Midlands | 5,751,000 |
East | 6,076,451 |
London | 8,673,713 |
South East | 8,947,913 |
South West | 5,471,180 |
Source: Office for National Statistics: 2015 mid-year population estimates published in June 2016