这一举措将使政府为期10年的住房计划总资金超过400亿英镑。
The move will take funding for the 10-year programme to more than £40bn.
艾拉·基普林、帕特里克·杰克逊报道 周三的预算案将为英格兰的社会住房和可负担住房提供超过10亿英镑资金，使政府为期10年的住房计划总资金突破400亿英镑。
By Ella Kipling, Patrick Jackson More than £1bn for social and affordable housing in England will be provided in the Wednesday's Budget, taking funding for the government's 10-year homes programme past £40bn.
英格兰各地的市长和区域领导人预计也将在周三的预算案中获得更大的权力和资金——地方议会将得到帮助，以优惠利率向政府借款用于房屋建设投资。
Mayors and regional leaders across England are also expected to get greater powers and funding in Wednesday's announcement - with councils helped to borrow money from the government to invest in housebuilding through preferential interest rates.
希望这些计划能赋予区域领导人在投资决策上更大的灵活性和权威。
It is hoped the plans will give regional leaders more flexibility and authority over investment decisions.
财政大臣约翰·希利表示，英格兰的城市和地区将获得“决定自己未来的权利”，而首相安迪·伯纳姆则表示，这些计划旨在将权力下放给“最了解自己社区的人”。
Chancellor John Healey said English cities and regions would get the "right to decide their own future", while Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the plans were about shifting power to those "who know their communities best".
财政大臣还将宣布对小型啤酒厂的更多支持，财政部表示，他希望“为我们的啤酒生产商扭转局势”。
The chancellor will also announce more support for small breweries with the Treasury saying he wants "to turn the tide for our pint producers".
与此同时，《星期日泰晤士报》报道称，希利预计将在预算案中公布数十亿英镑的新增国防开支。具体资金细节将在明年的支出审查中概述。但影子财政大臣安德鲁·格里菲斯呼吁，如果希利未能说明英国将如何在2030年前实现国防开支占GDP 3%的目标，他应辞职。
Meanwhile, the Sunday Times reports that Healey is expected to unveil billions of pounds of new defence spending in the Budget. Specific details on the funding would be outlined at next year's spending review But shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith has called for Healey to resign if he fails to set out how the UK will spend 3% of the UK's GDP on defence by 2030.
根据区域规划，政府明年将拨付初始2.85亿英镑的过渡性种子资金，以支持市长和地方领导人——并减少对白厅“碎片化竞标资金池”的依赖，财政部表示。
Under the plans for the regions, an initial £285m in transitional seed funding will be allocated by the government next year to support mayors and local leaders - and reduce reliance on "fragmented bidding pots" in Whitehall, the Treasury said.
政府还将确认，将与市长合作设计一项从2028年开始的15亿英镑新借贷机制，这将使他们能够获得支持地方优先事项所需的资本。
The government will also confirm that it will work with mayors to design a new £1.5bn borrowing facility from 2028, which would allow them to access capital needed to support local priorities.
财政部表示，这笔资金可用于新建住房、振兴商业街或改善交通连接。
The Treasury said this could be put towards new homes, bringing high streets back to life, or improving transport links.
希利表示：“市长和地方领导人最清楚其社区发展需要什么，因此我们将给予他们更多资金、更多权力和更多能力，以推动项目落地、建设住房，并为其地区做出正确决策。” 尚未成为战略管理机构的全国各地地区将能够分享2.85亿英镑资金，以“释放将促进其地区增长的项目”。
Healey said: "Mayors and local leaders know what their communities need to grow, which is why we are giving them more money, more power and more capacity to get projects moving, build homes and make the right decisions for their areas." Areas across the country which are not yet strategic authorities will be able to access a share of the £285m funding to "unlock projects which will contribute to growth in their areas".
首相表示：“我宣告地方领导人不再需要向威斯敏斯特伸手要钱的时代结束。那不是治国之道。” 英国市长网络主席、工党东米德兰兹市长克莱尔·沃德表示，通过下放更多权力获得“正确的权力和资源”，将有助于将“雄心勃勃的计划变为现实，为社区带来真正持久的变革”。
The prime minister said: "I'm calling time on local leaders going cap in hand to Westminster. That is no way to run a country." Claire Ward, chairwoman of the UK Mayors Network and Labour's East Midlands mayor, said that having the "right powers and resources through increased devolution" would help turn "ambitious plans into reality and deliver real, lasting change" for communities.
工党伦敦市长萨迪克·汗勋爵表示，更强的投资能力可以“帮助释放变革性基础设施项目”，包括西伦敦环线、贝克卢地铁线延伸线和码头区轻铁延伸线，以及斯特拉特福德国际车站的开发。
Lord Sadiq Khan, Labour's mayor of London, said greater ability to invest could "help unlock transformational infrastructure projects" including the West London Orbital route, the extension of the Bakerloo Underground line and Docklands Light Railway, and the development of Stratford International station.
然而，希利的预算准备工作遭遇挫折，财政部创业事务顾问亚历克斯·德普利奇宣布将辞去该职务。她将于周四离任，即预算案发布的第二天。
However, Healey's Budget preparations suffered a blow when the Treasury's entrepreneurship adviser, Alex Depledge, announced she was resigning from the role. She will leave on Thursday, the day after the Budget.
她对《星期日泰晤士报》表示，初创企业正被视为“配角”，不应被推向“经济政策的边缘”。
Start-ups, she told the Sunday Times, were being treated as a "sideshow" and should not be pushed to the "margins of economic policy".
她说：“让高成长性企业停留在边缘，低估了我们最优秀企业的贡献，我们必须不惜一切代价在英国本土支持和发展它们。”
"Keeping scale-ups on the fringes underestimates the contribution of our greatest companies, and we need to support and develop them on British shores at all costs," she said.
在预算案发布前夕，国防问题也一直是关键议题。希利曾于6月因国防投资计划辞去前政府国防大臣职务，他声称该计划“远远低于”武装部队所需资金水平。
Leading up to the Budget, defence has also remained a key talking point. Healey resigned in June from his role as defence secretary in the previous government over the defence investment plan, which he claimed fell "well short" of what was needed to fund the armed forces.
他曾呼吁到2030年将国防开支提高至占该国国内生产总值（GDP）的3%，并以此为步骤，在2035年达到北约3.5%的目标。
He had called for defence spending to rise to 3% of the country's GDP by 2030, on the way to reaching a Nato target of 3.5% in 2035.
但影子财政大臣敦促他承诺制定计划，将GDP的3%用于国防开支，他说：“我们正处于一个非同寻常的威胁时代，然而财政大臣却在为支付国家的‘保险费’筹措资金的问题上犹豫不决……没有强大的国防，就不可能有强大的经济。”
But urging him to commit to setting out plans to spend 3% of GDP on defence, the shadow chancellor said: "We are living in an era of extraordinary threats, and yet the chancellor is dithering over finding the money to pay the country's insurance premium... you cannot have a strong economy without a strong defence".
针对安德鲁·格里菲斯的言论，国防大臣韦斯·斯特里廷表示，保守党在执政期间未对军队进行投资，应对此负责。
Responding to Andrew Griffith's comments, Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said the Conservatives were to blame for failing to invest in the military while in office.
斯特里廷说，首相已明确表示，其政府“决心给予武装部队所需的投资，以保障我们的安全”。
Streeting said the prime minister had made it clear that his government was "determined to give our armed forces the investment needed to keep us safe".