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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Will Durrant

Treasury team urged to bus officials around England amid fears of ‘ignorance’

A Labour MP has called for Treasury ministers to bus their officials around the country, amid fears they “show a startling ignorance” of English regions.

Graham Stringer, the MP for Blackley and Middleton South in Greater Manchester, also suggested funding formulas are “biased against the regions”, and asked whether minister Darren Jones could “look at” how Whitehall decides where to spend money.

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