Prime Minister Andy Burnham promised to deliver details of his ‘Ten Year Plan” for Britain before Christmas. (Alamy)
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Andy Burnham has confirmed that the government’s ten-year plan will be published before Christmas.
Speaking in Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, Burnham told Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch that he would present it to the House of Commons “before it rises for the Christmas recess” on 17 December.
There had been question marks over when the plan would be published after Burnham told The Economist last week it “may go into the new year” and that he may “need to leave that open”.
However, the PM clarified today that the plan would be published in the coming weeks.
Burnham has described the ten-year plan as a key part of his plan for the country.
Speaking on Downing Street when he entered office in July, he said that later in the year he would “bring forward a new plan for Britain, a ten-year plan, laying out a path from where we are now to where I believe we all want Britain to be”.
In PMQs today, he said the document would show that the Labour government is “facing the big issues”.
It is expected to cover areas including greater public control, reindustrialising the country, devolution, and the PM’s plans for a National Care Service.
There have also been questions about how much detail the plan will contain once published, with some Labour MPs expressing concern that it will be thinner than they originally thought and fail to meet the scale of the challenges facing the country.
PoliticsHome understands that the government has been hosting workshops for Labour MPs to feed in their ideas.
The New Statesman recently reported that the document published before the end of the year might be the beginning of a consultation process that will confirm finer details of the govenrment’s priorities.