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Families and ordinary working people will welcome the rise in the National Living Wage and changes to Universal Credit to ensure people keep more of what they earn. Together with a further freeze in fuel duty saving motorists on average £10 every time they fill up their car, today’s measures will provide greater financial security and help Northern Ireland prosper and grow.

The section of the Autumn Statement relating to the National Infrastructure Commission can be found here. It is reproduced in full below.

Northern Ireland will benefit from over £250 million infrastructure capital funding which will enable the Executive to invest in key infrastructure projects to support future growth.

The UK government’s decision to focus on infrastructure spending means that the Welsh Government’s budget will increase by more than £400 million through to 2020-21, giving it even greater spending power to boost productivity and promote growth in Wales. This is in addition to the £500 million the Welsh Government will be able to borrow to invest from 2018.

This will be an increase of over £800 million for the Scottish Government, over £400 million for the Welsh Government and over £250 million for the Northern Ireland Executive.