Oral Answers to Questions

Jessica Toale Excerpts

Tuesday 1st July 2025 Commons Chamber

[Emma Reynolds]

We are supporting growth across the country, and we will publish further details of how we will do that in the coming weeks.

[Jessica Toale (Bournemouth West) (Lab)]

13. What assessment she has made of the potential impact of the 10-year infrastructure strategy on economic growth.

[The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Darren Jones)]

The 10-year infrastructure strategy is a key part of this Government’s growth mission, committing to a minimum of £725 billion of investment over the next 10 years in local transport, affordable homes, and modernising schools and hospitals in every part of the country.

[Jessica Toale]

I was pleased to see that the creative and digital industries, financial services, and clean energy were all included as priority sectors in the Government’s industrial strategy. Those sectors have huge potential in my constituency of Bournemouth West. Focusing on the latter, as a fellow south-west MP, what assessment has the Minister made of the Dorset clean energy super cluster’s potential for growth, jobs and bringing people’s bills down, not just in Bournemouth West but across the region?

[Darren Jones]

I thank my hon. Friend for championing the Dorset clean energy super cluster opportunity, which was announced by her council at the UK’s Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum only recently. Offshore wind, hydrogen, nuclear, and carbon capture and storage are frontier technologies and industries that are at the heart of our clean energy sector plan, and they will create opportunities in every part of the country, including in the south-west.