THE Minister for Cities will today (Wednesday, April 22) set out the Conservative Plan for Working People in the region.

Greg Clark will launch the proposal when he is in Stockton on the campaign trail.

The plan, in the form of a credit-card sized pledge card, aims to deliver more jobs and investment in the North-East, including creating 50,000 extra new jobs, boosting family incomes for 1.1 million people, creating 200,000 apprenticeships, 20,000 new good primary school places and o?ering working families 30 hours of free childcare a week.

He will maintain that a Conservative government would support local plans for a Teesside Combined Authority and continue to support the Tees Valley’s highly successful Local Enterprise Partnership.

During his visit, he will say: "The North-East is on the rise with new jobs and businesses being created across the area. Our Plan for working people in the North-East is a long term economic plan to bring new investment here and more jobs across the North-East.

"We’re the only party offering the North-East a real vision for the future, and we’ve got a track record of success. This plan will help continue this forward momentum."

He is expected to warn that an Ed Miliband and Scottish Nationalist government would mean jobs lost in the North-East, incomes cut and insecurity rising.

He will allege that would lead to the cancellation of vital infrastructure projects, including plans to dual the A1, plans to widen the A19, phase two of HS2, and plans for east/west high speed rail across the Pennines.