Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been spent on infrastructure per capita by the Government in (a) London, (b) the North East and (c) South Shields in each year from 2010 to 2022.

The government is committed to delivering a revolution in the UK's infrastructure. Spending Review 2021 delivers the government’s plans, first set out at Spring Budget 2020, to invest over £600 billion in gross public sector investment over this Parliament, reaching the highest sustained levels of public sector net investment as a proportion of GDP since the late 1970s.

The government has been taking action to level up the North East as set out in the recently published Levelling Up White Paper. This includes the announcements from the Spending Review and Autumn Budget 2021 of £310 million over five years to transform local transport networks in the Tees Valley for schemes such as upgrading Middlesbrough and Darlington stations and improving local rail links, £100 million through the Levelling up Fund for 5 projects in the Norther East and £600,000 through the Community Ownership Fund for two projects in North Shields and Whitley Bay.

A regional breakdown for total current and capital identifiable expenditure per head, from 2016-17 to 2020-21 can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/country-and-regional-analysis-2021/country-and-regional-analysis-november-2021.