North Bedfordshire MP Richard Fuller (Conservative) has expressed disappointment at a response to a joint letter from him and Blake Stephenson (Mid Bedfordshire, Conservative) asking to meet and discuss the Universal Studios project.
Writing to the chancellor of the exchequer, Fuller and Stephenson asked for a meeting to get updates on the plan and emphasise local support for the project, however, the letter was passed to the chief secretary to the treasury who declined to meet due to time restraints.
However, on his Facebook page this morning (Tuesday), Fuller wrote that while he was “disappointed” in the response, he was upbeat about the project coming to Bedfordshire eventually.
“I remain confident that this project will eventually be given the green light and hope the government is doing everything it can to finalise an agreement to bring this significant investment to Bedfordshire,’ he wrote.
In a reply via the chief secretary to the treasury, on behalf of the Chancellor, and in his position as the Minister responsible for this policy area. Darren Jones MP wrote that the Government is ‘committed’ to attracting inward investment across all parts of the UK.
And that at the recent investment summit, the government ‘secured £63 billion and nearly 38,000 jobs for the U.K.’.
He continued, ‘Please be assured that the Government is supportive of the investment you have raised and is pleased that NBCUniversal is interested in the UK for its first European park.’
