THE A50 has been named in the Government's infrastructure spending plans for the next two decades.
The National Infrastructure Plan (NIP) will provide funding for enhancements to the A50 around Uttoxeter to start no later than 2015 to 2016.
All in all, about £375 billion of investment in energy, transport, communications and water projects are planned.
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander said: "The most important thing we've done as a government is create an environment in which people want to come in and invest in British infrastructure."
But Mr Alexander admitted the UK had "underinvested" in infrastructure over several decades.
Mr Alexander also denied there was a north-south divide in the allocation of spending: "There are projects going on in every part of the country."
New infrastructure has also been planned for north Wales, Battersea in London and Suffolk.
The news comes on the day that six major insurers announce plans to collectively invest £25 billion in UK infrastructure over the next five years.
