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The Chancellor, George Osborne, will today launch the National Infrastructure Commission - a new independent body set up to prioritise UK infrastructure projects and hold the Government to account - as he commits to spending £100bn for new road, rail and flood defence projects in the next five years.
The Commission will be led by former cabinet minister Lord Adonis.
Osborne is expected to set out plans to 'get Britain building', confirming that infrastructure "will be at the heart" of next month's spending review.
In his speech, Osborne will also confirm that the £15bn Road Investment Strategy - announced last year - is still on the cards with the Treasury expecting to raise "billions of pounds" with a suite of asset sales.
The Commission will produce a report at the start of each five-year Parliament term, which will offer recommendations for priority infrastructure projects, with an initial focus on three areas:
The commissioners are:
"British people have to spend longer than they should getting to work, pay more than they should in energy bills and can't buy the houses they want because of the failure of successive governments to think long-term," Osborne is expected to say.
"Infrastructure isn't some obscure concept - it's about people's lives, economic security and the sort of country we want to live in," he will add.
"That's why I am determined to shake Britain out of its inertia on," he will add infrastructure and end the situation where we trail our rivals when it comes to building everything from the housing to the power stations that our children will need."