Government believes that infrastructure is central to our economic strategy. Along with the Spending Review, the National Infrastructure Strategy was delayed to later this year to ensure that HM Treasury and departments could remain focused on responding to the immediate public health and economic emergency. The NIS will set out further details on its long-term ambitions, including on decarbonisation and levelling up. The NIS will also formally respond to recommendations made by the National Infrastructure Commission in their National Infrastructure Assessment which is based on detailed consideration of the UK’s long term infrastructure needs, including across regions.