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Stormont leaders write to government about City Deals

Leaders from the five main Stormont parties have written to the chief secretary of the Treasury and the secretary of state asking them to rethink what they said was the “appalling” decision to pause two City Deals in Northern Ireland.

They said elected members from across the Assembly are united in calling for the decisions over the Causeway Coast and Glens and Mid-South West growth deals to be lifted immediately.

Decisions to pause two other City Deals last Friday for Belfast and Derry and Strabane have now been overturned.

In their letter they said if the government was serious about spurring economic growth the pause must be ended immediately.

City deals are regeneration funding packages worth more than £1.5bn with about £600m coming from central government.


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