Cuts - And So It Begins

doire_2

The full list of projects cancelled:
Stonehenge Visitor Centre: £25m
Local Authority Leader Boards: £16m
Sheffield Forgemasters International Limited: £80m
Rollout of the Future Jobs Fund: £290m
Six month offer recruitment subsidies: £30m
Extension of Young Person's Guarantee to 2011/12: £450m
Two year Jobseeker's Guarantee: £515m
Active Challenge Routes - Walk England: £2m
County Sports Partnerships : £6m
North Tees and Hartlepool hospital: £450m
Local Authority Business Growth Initiative: £50m
Outukumpu: £13m
List of projects suspended:
Libraries Modernisation Programme: £12m
Sheffield Retail Quarter: £12m
Kent Thameside Strategic Transport Programme: £23m
University Enterprise Capital Fund: £25m
Newton Scholarships: £25m
Health Research Support Initiative: £73m
Leeds Holt Park Well-being Centre: £50m
Birmingham Magistrates Court: £94m
Successor Deterrent Extension to Concept Phase Long Lead Items: £66m
Search and Rescue Helicopters: £4.6bn (Successor Deterrent Extension to Concept Phase Long Lead Items will be reviewed as part of the broader Trident value for money review, which will report in the coming weeks. Search and Rescue Helicopters will be reviewed as a matter of urgency)
A14 Road: £1.1bn


And thats just a tiny fraction of it :eek:

lostinrates

I love stonehenge. I really love it. And I have to say I wish they wouldn't have the visitor centre. what is amazing about it is that it is where it is, alone, and that we have minimised our interfering busybodyness about it. Stonehenge is well documented...can a visitor centre really offer anything new?

I'm afraid even if I didn't feel this way that I think its a good idea to at least postpone things like the visitor centre spend.

ash28

I knew Danny Alexander was the tv - but to be honest I haven't been able to look at him since someone said his nickname was Beaker....



Didn't someone post it on here?

Pete111

Sad to see some of these on the list but that's only the start due to the vast mess the Govt are trying to clear up

Let the belt tightening (and moaning) begin....

Bonia77

Could you please let me know how this cuts will decrease quality of life of average person?

I'm quite surprised that some of these projects were even considered good value-for-money for an average taxpayer...

Pete111

Bonia77 wrote: »

Could you please let me know how this cuts will decrease quality of life of average person?

I'm quite surprised that some of these projects were even considered good value-for-money for an average taxpayer...

Maybe not Mr or Mrs Average - but Jobseeking Druid Helicopter pilots with a penchant for Hillwalking will be badly hit by this ...

doire_2

Bonia77 wrote: »

Could you please let me know how this cuts will decrease quality of life of average person?

I'm quite surprised that some of these projects were even considered good value-for-money for an average taxpayer...

Well this one - Sheffield Forgemasters International Limited: £80m - was going to create 180 new jobs for a start

kabayiri

I'm surprised some of TWH's favourite pet projects didnt make it on that list.

2 of them spring to mind straight away :-

a) the Black Jewish Lesbian paraplegic outing each year to Clacton
b) the diversity cultural awareness and holistic evangelical centre for atheistic ex union senior party members

Thrugelmir

Where did the list originate from? As the Government has only offered funding towards the Stonehenge project not actually building it. :eek:

Appears very misleading.

English Heritage is obviously extremely disappointed that the £10 million promised by Gordon Brown, then Prime Minister, in the House of Commons on 13 May, 2009, will not now be forthcoming. Stonehenge is a project of global significance. It is Britain’s premier World Heritage Site. It was a key feature in Britain’s bid for the London Olympics. Transforming the monument’s setting and the visitor experience is vital to Britain’s reputation, and to our tourism industry,especially in 2012 but also thereafter.
This does not necessarily mean this is the end of the project. We will be discussing the withdrawal of Government financial support with the Department for Culture, Media andSport. We will be making an announcement as to the future of the project after the English
Heritage Commission meets on 30 June.
Issued by English Heritage Communications

Date 17 June, 2010

Labour spin? :cool:

doire_2

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Where did the list originate from?

Check the BBC news website

lostinrates

Stonehenge...part of the Olympics? What for...high jump?

Bizarre.