Free Zones: Public Expenditure

(asked on 11th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether there will be a 100 per cent Barnett consequential in respect of the £175 million provided for freeports in England.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 16th March 2021

The Barnett formula will apply in the usual way in relation to funding provided to the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government to introduce Freeports in England.

There are ongoing discussions with the devolved administrations to establish at least one Freeport in each of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as soon as possible.

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