East Yorkshire at the centre of today's government announcement of £4.7billion of transport funding
The Prime Minister held his cabinet meeting in the region today
The Prime Minister has been hosting a Cabinet Meeting in East Yorkshire after a big announcement on transport funding has been revealed.
The Humber region will see millions of pounds of funding over seven years after the northern leg of HS2 was previously scrapped.
The East Riding will get almost £170 million, Hull just over £160 million and both North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire will get almost £120 million each.
It's part of a wider package of support of funding for the north and the midlands.
The Transport Secretary Mark Harper spoke to us earlier in Goole as he visited the Siemens factory:
"This is the money for the smaller cities and towns and rural areas outside those big city regions across the north and the midlands.
"It'll be spent on local transport priorities.
"This is now money that councils will be able to spend on those local priorities. So people in those areas it can be spent on roads, on road junctions, new buses, improving rail - whatever councils want to spend it on.
"Capital spending, that's going to improve transport in their areas."
The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on a visit to East Yorkshire said:
"Crucially local people will be in charge of how to invest that money - not someone sitting in Whitehall, so it's an example of levelling up in action, it's us delivering on the plan we set out, and that's going to make a huge difference across the north and the midlands."
Labour accused ministers of having the "brass neck" to speak about "transformation" to regional transport services after "countless broken promises to do just that".