Just £1 spent on North East
transport for every £9 spent in London
Just £1 is spent on transport in the North East for every £9
that goes to London, new official figures have shown.
The latest Government public spending figures show that the
North East still loses out on money for roads and railways while London gets a
far bigger share of transport cash than it should, based on population size.
Newcastle upon Tyne East MP Nick Brown said: “This is
grotesquely unfair. The Government should allocate a transport budget to each
English region, so that regions like ours are not always at the back of the
queue with London getting the lion’s share of the funding. If the Northern
Powerhouse is to mean anything, the Government should focus on transport links
in the northern regions and allocate money specifically to them. Otherwise it
is all talk.”
