A cabinet minister has confirmed that the Government is expecting local businesses and councils to stump up the major part of the cash for major projects like the proposed extensions to the Midland Metro.
However, Communities and Local Government Secretary Hazel Blears admitted that multi-million pound projects like the Metro extension might not be achievable without central Whitehall funding.
Local authority chiefs effectively forfeited cash from the Department of Transport’s transport investment fund by throwing out plans for congestion charging in the Black Country and Birmingham.
West Midlands minister Liam Byrne appealed to the region earlier this week to look for other ways to finance the Metro and other much needed transport infrastructure, including supplementary business rates, borrowing and land sales.
She told journalists one possible way of funding was through charging a supplementary business rate.
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look out for more council rises to follow this anouncement you won’t stop paying through the nose till you stand up and be counted to get these corrupt politicians out:))
I’m in Sweden where i have met campaigners from other countries, why are we being taxed through the nose, why are politicians not accessable throughout the EU to complain to?:)) why do they all hide or go sick when to try to get answers to the power of Brussels, what do they know that they refuse to tell us who have the genuine rights to know?:))
Just remember your children and grandchildren will be the suffers from this dictatorship the only ones to benefit are politicians and certain big business moguls. But hey isn’t this government paid to give out peerages:))
Get your backsides into action
Get snouts out the trough party
if gordan brown and his useless government did’nt give 900,000 million to india then we could’ve
easily built this much needed link,but now as always in the west midlands cockney london telling us we’re on our own again plus if sandhellcouncil did’nt waste 85 mil on a white elephant {the public} that could’ve help it along.
one thing to say wretched government get snouts out the trough party number2 member