This week all the attention is on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt as he unveiled his Autumn Statement - or at least the bits that hadn't already been briefed out to the media in advance - in an hour-long speech. In the national media all the talk is about tax cuts - how big are they, when do they start, will they be swallowed up by so-called 'fiscal drag' where millions of people every year lose out by virtue of being moved into a higher tax bracket. But in the podcast this week Rob Parsons looks at what the speech on Wednesday will mean for the North. He talks to one of Jeremy Hunt's Treasury Ministers, Leeds-born Gareth Davies, about the new investment zone in West Yorkshire that's seeing £160 million of public investment to help boost the region's thriving health and life sciences sector. How will it actually work and will it just move investment from other nearby areas? And to dissect the Autumn Statement and how it will play out in this part of the world we've got two leading Northern voices - Clare Hayward, interim chair of the NP11 group of Northern Local Enterprise Partnerships, and Henri Murison, chief executive of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership. *** The Northern Agenda is a Laudable production for Reach. It is presented by Rob Parsons, and produced by Daniel J. McLaughlin. You can subscribe to the daily Northern Agenda newsletter here: http://www.thenorthernagenda.co.uk/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices