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Peter Black and South Wales West Liberal DemocratsRepresenting Aberavon, Bridgend, Gower, Neath, Ogmore, Port Talbot, and Swansea |
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Local good causes may lose out due to Olympics fiasco
March 12, 2007 1:28 PM
Peter Black at the lottery funded KPC Youth Centre in Pyle
The admission by UK government Ministers that the cost of the 2012 Olympics is to hit £9bn, and that it could go even higher, is bad news for Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Bridgend, the South Wales West Liberal Democrat Assembly Member, Peter Black has said.
Mr. Black was commenting on reports in the Sunday press that Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell has lost her battle with Chancellor Gordon Brown to limit the amount of National Lottery funding to £1.5bn. This leaves the prospect that many good causes around Wales could lose vital funding so as to bail the Government out.
"My concern is that as costs pile up the Government will raid the lottery good causes pot so as to stay within their own public spending limits," said Mr. Black. "That will mean that less cash will be available for important projects in our local area including those designed to help some of our most deprived communities."
"The time must surely now have come for Wales' Culture Minister to start publicly standing up to Westminster on this issue. The Government has to find a way to protect vital community projects from the fall-out of this funding fiasco."
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