Exclusive: infrastructure adviser says town halls in England should be given £30bn to spend on transport projects
Ministers must stop making council leaders “plead on bended knee” for vital funds if “levelling up” is to work, the government’s infrastructure adviser has said.
Sir John Armitt, the chair of the UK’s the chair of the UK’s National Infrastructure Commission, said town halls in England should be given £30bn to spend on transport projects over the next five years.