Lochhead: Westminster will not talk to us about new fund to replace EU cash July 6, 2021, 12:03 am
Employment minister Richard Lochhead is demanding answers on how a post Brexit funding scheme will work. (Fraser Bremner/Scottish Daily Mail/PA)
Scottish Government ministers say they have had “no clear response” from Westminster on how a post-Brexit funding scheme will work – despite asking questions for almost two years.
The Employment Minister, Richard Lochhead, said he was “beyond disappointed” with the UK Government on the issue of how its Shared Prosperity Fund – brought in as a replacement for EU structural funding – would work.
He has written to UK ministers asking a series of “vitally important questions that we need urgent answers to”.
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