Portsmouth South MP Stephen Morgan has praised Labour’s £725bn infrastructure strategy, designed to fund long-term maintenance and major projects across the country.
The comprehensive Infrastructure Strategy represents a decade-long commitment to investment, aiming to address how the government will fund infrastructure whilst ensuring efficient and effective spending through improved project planning and delivery methods.
The government’s landmark 10-year plan tackles the mounting maintenance crisis that has left educational institutions, healthcare facilities, and judicial buildings in deteriorating conditions across the nation.
This administration pledges a different approach to infrastructure delivery, addressing previous governmental shortcomings.
Local investments encompass Portsea Island’s coastal flood protection initiatives, securing £13.8 million in funding to safeguard 1,081 properties. Additionally, 58 regional schools will benefit from the School Rebuilding Programme.
The strategy delivers essential certainty and stability to attract investment, strengthening British supply chains and employment opportunities, whilst adopting an integrated approach to enhance planning and delivery across various infrastructure categories.
The plan aims to stimulate foreign investment by establishing a long-term vision that provides investors with necessary confidence and certainty for genuine project commitment, generating employment prospects and improving living standards nationwide, fulfilling the Plan for Change objectives.
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Portsmouth South MP Stephen Morgan commented:
“I’m endorsing this Infrastructure Strategy as it focuses on investing in Britain’s regeneration – improving lives, strengthening public services, and establishing growth conditions in Portsmouth.
“This funding commitment from the government supports rebuilding our educational facilities, hospitals, transport networks, and delivers our pledge of 1.5 million new properties.
“I’m extremely pleased Portsmouth is receiving essential support after 14 years of disorder and insufficient investment.”
