Infrastructure Investment

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 25 June 2013.

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Photo of Danny Alexander Danny Alexander The Chief Secretary to the Treasury 11:30, 25 June 2013

The hon. Gentleman should remember that the capital investment we are putting into infrastructure in this economy is much greater than in the plans his party set out before the last election. As the former Foreign Secretary said, Labour was going to halve the share of national income going into capital spending. We have added to that, and by using the fiscal credibility that this Government’s tough approach to the deficit has secured to offer infrastructure guarantees, we are enabling infrastructure projects in the private sector to come forward that would not be doing so otherwise.