Claim: Londoners are set to get six times more funding for transport infrastructure per head than the North East and North West regions, and eight times that on offer in Yorkshire & the Humber.
Fact-check: Regional investment in transport: we don't know exactly who gets what - Full Fact
Verdict: these estimates are correct, using rough information from a government list of planned infrastructure projects. that information isn't complete, and the comparison ignores funding which isn't allocated to specific regions. if general funding was included, the regional differences are likely to be smaller.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Richard Braham
Date published: 2016-08-22T00:00:00