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Plans for a 拢450m hospital in Hartlepool and 拢25m government funding for the Denton Corker Marshall-designed Stonehenge visitor centre have been scrapped after a review of government funding decisions made this year.

The schemes are just two of a total of 24 government projects worth 拢10.5bn that have been either cancelled or put on hold following today鈥檚 announcement.

Other schemes affected include:

• 拢1.1bn A14 upgrade
• 拢12m for the regeneration of Sheffield city centre
• 拢23m for transport improvements in north Kent under the Thames Gateway regeneration
• 拢94m for a new magistrate鈥檚 court in Birmingham.

All of these have been put on hold pending the autumn spending review.

In total 拢2bn of schemes are to be cancelled and 拢8.5bn put on hold.

Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, said he was determined to tackle the 鈥渦nprecedented budget deficit and bad financial management鈥� left over from the previous administration.

鈥淎s a result of the poor decisions made by the previous government, I have taken the decision to cancel certain projects that do not represent good value for money, and suspend others pending full consideration in the Spending Review.鈥�

He added that the coalition government had also discovered a further 拢1bn black hole in government spending plans which were not properly funded, meaning further savings would have be found, with an announcement likely next week.

In addition the statement did not include projects which had been approved under agreed departmental expenditure limits, but were also being reviewed.

黑洞社区 Schools for the Future schemes were being considered separately, he said, with an announcement about the programme to be made imminently.

The full list of affected schemes are .