Autumn statement: only a fraction of capital spending promised last year has materialised | Analysis

No major roads built since coalition came to power and many promises of cash not fulfilled Only a fraction of the billions of pounds of new capital spending that George Osborne announced in last year's autumn statement has been spent so far, research by the Guardian has established. Less than half of the public investment trumpeted by the chancellor last November has been paid out, and none of the £21bn in private investment promised has yet been spent. Of the key public investment schemes an...