This year's Budget investment in health, housing and infrastructure is something Bay of Plenty MP Todd Muller believes will further underpin a 'booming” Bay of Plenty.

Finance Minister Bill English announced his eighth budget yesterday and Todd says it's a budget which invest in a growing economy.

Bay of Plenty MP Todd Muller.

'Because National has very carefully managed the Crown's finances these past eight years, we're now in a position to deliver a Budget with big increases in spending in areas that matter for the Bay,” Todd says.

'New Zealand is one of the best performing economies in the world, outstripping most of the world's richest economies.”

He says more than 200,000 people have jobs than three years ago, with 170,000 more jobs expected over next few years.

'This creates a platform of performance from which we can spend wisely for real local benefit.”

As a region attracting hundreds of new people each year with skills and capability, Todd says the Bay is the best-placed region in the country to benefit from the $761.4 million investment over the next four years in science, skills, tertiary education and regional development initiatives.

'We have a proven track record with businesses like WNT ventures, so I'm hugely confident the Bay will get a deserved chunk of this exciting innovation investment.

'A growing economy provides us with choices, so I am delighted with the $2.2 billion extra spending in our health sector over next four years including more money for elective surgery,” says Todd.

'Our schools will benefit from both the targeted investment for school children at risk of not achieving regardless of decile, plus a further $883 million for new schools and classrooms, some of which I'm sure will flow to the Bay.”

Todd says the country is judged on how it treats the most vulnerable and this is a Budget focusing on making a real difference at the coal face.

'The $200 million to reform of services for vulnerable children and young people will be a legacy investment in my view, part of $652 million of social investment.

'This is a solid budget that builds on the progress we've made over the past eight years. A Budget I'm proud of.”