A new infrastructure bank based in Leeds will drive at least £40 billion of green investment.
That was among a series of sustainable plans set out in Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak’s 2021 Budget, in which he established how the Conservative Party will work to drive a sustainable and business-focused recovery in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw the UK economy shrink by 10%, the largest fall in GDP recorded in the past 300 years.
Catch up with the rest of the announcements made in our summary video above.