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Article: Cycling deal 'perfect example' of why public funding plan needs change; Assembly Government loses out on pounds 8m under Barnett formula.(News)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- February 21, 2008
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Byline: Tomos Livingstone Political Editor
WELSH ministers are missing out on more than pounds 8m because Whitehall has decided a quan go that operates only in England actually benefits the whole of the UK.
Cycling England was recently awarded pounds 140m extra government-funding to promote cycling - but despite the convention that extra English spending results in modest cash rises for the Assembly Government and the Scottish Executive, Cardiff Bay gets nothing.
The Assembly Government would expect pounds 8m if the rules of the Barnett formula - ...