In January members of the Cynefin y Werin anti-metrix group gave evidence to the St Athan military training PFI CPO inquiry but as yet no report from the inspector has been made available to us! Why has the inquiry failed to issue a decision?
WAG and MoD are working together to delay the publishing of the inspectors report! Has the applicant Ieuan Wyn or any of his officials seen the report r participated in decisions on when and whether to grant the CPOs requested?
Has minister Ieuan Wyn Jones abused his position of privilege in his efforts to promote this privatisation of military training?
Has the inspector decided that the Weycock Cross road junction development is necessary or essential?
Has a case been made for spending £10million plus on an unneeded road junction which wasn't ewven in the Vale of Glamorgans UDP?
Bearing in mind that the whole St Athan project has been severely scaled down, which removes all logic for building a new college from scratch, evidence given to the public enquiry by MoD officials revealed that the capacity of the proposed college to have been scaled back from 6,000 trainees to 2,700! Yet they still plan to spend £240 million on SLA (single living accommodation) and £130.5 million on housing out of a total of £830.5 million!
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15/09/2009
Vince Cable calls for Defence Training College at St Athan to be dropped!
at last - the voice of reason...perhaps the local lib dems will see sence at last!
Scrap Defence Training College, says Lib Dem
WalesOnline - - 3 hours ago
Lib Dem Treasury spokesman Vince Cable has identified the Training College, due to open in St Athan in 2014, as one project that should be dropped. ...
Western Mail
Scrap Defence Training College, says Lib Dem
Sep 15 2009 By Tomos Livingstone
THE planned £13bn Defence Training College in the Vale of Glamorgan should be scrapped as part of a series of cuts in public spending, the Liberal Democrats said this morning.
With the Government’s budget deficit running at £175bn, all parties are considering ways of making savings, with Prime Minister Gordon Brown expected to concede the need for cuts for the first time in a speech to union leaders later.
Lib Dem Treasury spokesman Vince Cable has identified the Training College, due to open in St Athan in 2014, as one project that should be dropped.
The scheme would privatise and centralise non-combat training for the armed services, and its backers say it will bring 5,000 jobs to the area.
It had previously been supported by Liberal Democrats in Cardiff Bay.
Mr Cable said: “The time for generalities is over.
“Instead, we need serious proposals for cutting public spending and tackling the UK's budget deficit.
“The priority is to move the economy out of recession but there is also a need to restore fiscal credibility and to allow Government to focus its resources where are they are most needed.
“We need to debate when, how and where the cuts will come. Un
doubtedly more are required to meet the exacting fiscal disciplines but asking the British public for their vote at the next election means being upfront from the outset about what Government should and should not be spending its money on.”
The party would also ditch a series of Government IT projects and save £2.4bn a year by freezing public sector pay.
A spokesman for the Welsh Liberal Democrats said: “There are going to have to be significant cuts beyond those which the Government have stepped forward and suggested. If we didn’t cut here, cuts would be needed somewhere else.”
Different schemes for armed forces training could be considered instead, the spokesman added.
Scrap Defence Training College, says Lib Dem
Sep 15 2009 By Tomos Livingstone
THE planned £13bn Defence Training College in the Vale of Glamorgan should be scrapped as part of a series of cuts in public spending, the Liberal Democrats said this morning.
With the Government’s budget deficit running at £175bn, all parties are considering ways of making savings, with Prime Minister Gordon Brown expected to concede the need for cuts for the first time in a speech to union leaders later.
Lib Dem Treasury spokesman Vince Cable has identified the Training College, due to open in St Athan in 2014, as one project that should be dropped.
The scheme would privatise and centralise non-combat training for the armed services, and its backers say it will bring 5,000 jobs to the area.
It had previously been supported by Liberal Democrats in Cardiff Bay.
Mr Cable said: “The time for generalities is over.
“Instead, we need serious proposals for cutting public spending and tackling the UK's budget deficit.
“The priority is to move the economy out of recession but there is also a need to restore fiscal credibility and to allow Government to focus its resources where are they are most needed.
“We need to debate when, how and where the cuts will come. Un
doubtedly more are required to meet the exacting fiscal disciplines but asking the British public for their vote at the next election means being upfront from the outset about what Government should and should not be spending its money on.”
The party would also ditch a series of Government IT projects and save £2.4bn a year by freezing public sector pay.
A spokesman for the Welsh Liberal Democrats said: “There are going to have to be significant cuts beyond those which the Government have stepped forward and suggested. If we didn’t cut here, cuts would be needed somewhere else.”
Different schemes for armed forces training could be considered instead, the spokesman added.
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