Research to improve the assessment and monitoring of Regional and Local Economic Growth

The UK Infrastructure Bank ("UKIB") is a government-owned policy Bank, providing £22bn of infrastructure finance and partnering with the private sector and local government to finance a green industrial revolution and drive growth across the country. <br/><br/>Our mission is to partner with the private sector and local government to increase infrastructure investment in pursuit of our two strategic objectives: <br/><br/>• To help tackle climate change, particularly meeting the government’s net zero emissions target by 2050; and <br/>• To support Regional and Local Economic Growth (RLEG) through better connectedness, opportunities for new jobs and higher levels of productivity. <br/><br/>UKIB invests across the infrastructure landscape, including in new infrastructure technologies.

UKIB has five priority sectors for investment, namely clean energy, storage, transport, digital, waste and w…