Spending Review 2020

The Government is committed to levelling up opportunities across the UK. People shouldn’t have to leave Norfolk and Norwich to get on in life, or to further their career.

The Government will deliver this pledge by boosting jobs, wages and prospects for all communities so that everybody gets the same opportunities in life.

So, it is right that today’s Spending Review delivers on the priorities of the British people:

· The immediate priority is to protect people’s lives and livelihoods as the country responds to coronavirus.

· Delivering stronger public services – more hospitals, better schools and safer streets.

· Delivering a once-in-a-generation investment in infrastructure – creating jobs, growing the economy, and increasing pride in the places people call home.

The Government will deliver this pledge by boosting jobs, wages and prospects for all communities so that everybody gets the same opportunities in life.

The Spending Review delivers on the Conservatives promises to support local public services:

· Schools in the East of England will receive £4 billion in per-pupil funding through the schools block- an average per-pupil increase of 3.2 per cent compared to 20-21.

· The Government are building 6 new hospitals and continuing to grow medical undergraduate degree places, with an additional 162 places in the East of England compared to 2017-18.

· The East of England will benefit from a share of 6,000 new police officers in 2021-22.

· Norwich will host one of five pilots which looks to join up local law enforcement agencies, the NHS, prisons and social care services both to disrupt serious organised drugs and firearms trade and to provide support to tackle addiction.

· The East of England will benefit from nearly £800 million in funding across 15 projects, as part of the Housing Infrastructure Fund.

This Conservative government is investing over £42 million in Norwich and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough in 21-22 to improve public transport, boost connectivity and reduce congestion through the Transforming Cities Fund (with over £130 million total provided over the length of the programme).

Norfolk County Council will host one of five pilot locations which will develop cost-effective and innovative approaches to planting or encouraging trees outside woodlands, from the Shared Outcomes Fund.