Every £ of EU funding to undergo 'national interest' test to ensure it benefits UK

[LondonManc]

I'd love to see the M6 Toll extended past Stoke up to the M56.

[AtW]

I'd love to see the M6 Toll extended past Stoke up to the M56.

All motorways will be turned into tolls soon ...

[GB9]

Every pound of EU funding to undergo 'national interest' test to ensure it benefits Britain


Every pound of European Union funding will undergo a "national interest” test to see whether it should continue in the wake of Brexit, a Cabinet minister has said in a letter.

David Gauke, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said that Britain will only match EU funding after the country leaves the bloc if it can be proved to benefit the nation.

It comes after Philip Hammond, the Chancellor, pledged that farmers, universities and some of the nation's poorest regions will continue to receive billions of pounds worth of subsidies after Britain leaves the EU.

Mr Hammond said he wants to give people "reassurance... stability and certainty" by honouring EU funding worth more than £4billion a year.

The money to continue subsidising farmers and universities will come from Britain’s £8.5billion net contribution to the EU, which it will cease to pay upon its exit from the EU.

Source: Every pound of EU funding to undergo 'national interest' test to ensure it benefits Britain

Oh dear - does it mean that NHS won't get extra £350 mln per week??

Only £100m was promised.

Anyway, this is good news. Means we decide where the funding goes, not the loony left in Brussels. Isn't that what we voted for?

[AtW]

Only £100m was promised.

Pretty clear promise to fund NHS with the money that will no longer be sent to EU - £350 mln per week, very precise number used.

[OwlHoot]

All motorways will be turned into tolls soon ...

They certainly would have been before long if we had stayed in the EU.

[FatLazyContractor]

Only £100m was promised.

Is that your excuse?

Where is your arse-licking servant shanbhoy today? Getting abused in the basement?

[LondonManc]

Pretty clear promise to fund NHS with the money that will no longer be sent to EU - £350 mln per week, very precise number used.

It never said let's spend it all on the NHS. It's only the idiots that thought it meant that.

Mind you, Brexiters voted leave despite CMD promising WW3

[FatLazyContractor]

It never said let's spend it all on the NHS. It's only the idiots that thought it meant that.

Yes, only the Brexiters fell for it.

[LondonManc]

Yes, only the Brexiters fell for it.

Yet Bremoaners are still clinging to it....

[FatLazyContractor]

Yet Bremoaners are still clinging to it....

Lie innit?