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Recommendation 1
1
Accepted in Part
Paragraph: 9
Subject to devolved responsibilities, the National Infrastructure Strategy’s top-level objectives of supporting the UK economy...
Conclusion
Subject to devolved responsibilities, the National Infrastructure Strategy’s top-level objectives of supporting the UK economy after coronavirus, addressing regional inequalities and facilitating adaptation to climate change are welcome. However, the Government is yet to articulate the detail on how it will achieve those objectives.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government partially agrees, stating they will not publish a single delivery plan but will articulate details through existing publications like the Transport Decarbonisation Plan and forthcoming documents such as the Levelling Up White Paper, Integrated Rail Plan, Union Connectivity Review, and EV charging infrastructure strategy.
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Paragraph Reference:
9
Government Response
Accepted in Part
HM Government · verbatim extract
Accepted in Part
8 Seventh Special Report of Session 2021–22 To ensure that the National Infrastructure Strategy supports (a) the “levelling up” agenda, (b) achieving net zero emissions by 2050 and (c) economic recovery after the coronavirus pandemic, the Government must publish by 25 November 2021 a delivery plan setting out how its transport infrastructure commitments will be implemented to support the National Infrastructure Strategy. (Paragraph 53) The Government partially agrees with this recommendation. As other programme and mode-specific publications will cover this ground, we do not plan to publish a single delivery plan for the transport infrastructure commitments in the National Infrastructure Strategy (NIS). The Government has already published its Transport Decarbonisation Plan, which sets out the pathway to net zero transport in the UK. We will soon publish a Levelling Up White Paper, and the Integrated Rail Plan, which will ensure that Phase 2b of High Speed 2, Northern Powerhouse Rail and other planned rail investments in the North and Midlands are scoped and delivered in an integrated way. Over the next 12 months we will also publish the Union Connectivity Review and an electric vehicle charging infrastructure strategy. The Government has also set out transport spending plans for the next three years in the 2021 Spending Review. Taken together, these documents will set out how transport infrastructure will contribute to the Government’s ambitions to level up and unite the country, decarbonise the economy, and support the recovery from COVID-19.
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