Enterprise Zone

Planning Bill: Or how OFMdFM dropped the ball on their end of the Downing Street economic pact?

Mick Fealty on October 23, 2013, 1:40 pm

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So let’s join the dots a little on yesterday’s crash landing of the planning bill. [Focus people, focus – Ed]. This was the bill intended to fix set up the Enterprise Zones that were so critical to the Downing Street package of cash agreed just before the G8 with David Cameron. That was on 14th of June this year. By 24th and 25th June, OFMdFM had scrambled together two amendments which radically altered the bill the SDLP Minister for the …

The Problems of Centralised Government: The Ill-considered Constraints on Economic Recovery in Northern Ireland

Of This Island on April 12, 2012, 5:18 pm

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Nobody will argue that the United Kingdom is in choppy financial waters. On March 26, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development charted the cost of Britain’s recession at a cumulative output loss of £87 billion, or 6% of GDP. All very interesting, but what do cold percentages and unqualified numbers mean for the people of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? The simple answer is a drop in real wages and a critical lack of jobs. The unemployment rate in …