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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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Stormont’s deputy First Minister has accused the UK Government of treating the devolved institutions with “contempt”.
Sinn Fein’s vice-president claimed proposals for a bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland were about diverting attention from the UK’s “reckless” approach to Brexit.
She said they would be better off spending any money earmarked for an Irish Sea span on boosting healthcare staff pay.
The pipe dream bridge between the North and Scotland is a smokescreen for the Brexit fallout amongst the unionists who engineered it on both sides of the Irish Sea.
Ms O’Neill said: “The bridge is a pipe dream and it is more of an (act) to create a smokescreen in terms of the British Government’s reckless and partisan approach to Brexit that is all about deflection.”