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youth and
adult skills
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Metro Mayor - Candidate Manifestos
James Palmer, Conservative
• Adult skills budget
• Apprenticeship grant for employers
• Post 16 further education system
The metro mayor will have control over the:
Kevin Price, Labour
• Support the establishment of a university in
Peterborough
• Work with schools and businesses to ensure
young people are able to access the high quality
training needed to get into a career
• Ensure schools and businesses work more
closely together to match the development of
young talent with the needs of local companies.
The above is based on manifestos made public by declared candidate. Detailed manifestos for other candidates were not available
at the time of publishing
No skills policies featured in manifesto.

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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Metro Mayor - Candidate Manifestos
James Palmer, Conservative Kevin Price, Labour
• Intend to improve the A47, as well as increasing
the quality of rail journeys to Cambridge
• Commit £100 million to develop the Oxford to
Bedford (west) section of East-West rail, with
£27 million to develop the Oxford to Cambridge
Expressway road links and £10 million for the
Bedford to Cambridge (central) section of East
West rail.
The above is based on manifestos made public by declared candidate. Detailed manifestos for other candidates were not available
at the time of publishing
• Ensure key road and rail transport projects get
the go ahead like new stations at Fulborn,
Addenbrookes, Wisbech and Soham and the
A10 and A47 road improvements
transport and
infrastructure
• Consolidated transport budget
• Local roads network
• Bus franchising and smart ticketing
The metro mayor will have control over the:

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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Metro Mayor - Candidate Manifestos
James Palmer, Conservative Kevin Price, Labour
• Work with councils, community groups and MPs
to make a plan to deal with the housing pressures
across the region
• Invest in making the planning system more open
and accessible, improve the co-ordination of public
investment in infrastructure, support timely
connections to utilities, and tackle unnecessary
delays by giving councils and developers the tools
they need to build more swiftly.
The above is based on manifestos made public by declared candidate. Detailed manifestos for other candidates were not available
at the time of publishing
• Invest £100 million in affordable housing across
the region and £70 million in new council homes in Cambridge;
• Campaign to end sky-high rents and insecurity for private renters
• £170m affordable housing grant.
• Strategic planning.
• Mayoral Development Corporations.
The metro mayor will have control over the:
housing and
planning