The Mayor Oliver Coppard has responded to questions raised by the Yorkshire Post, Now Then and the Subsidy Advice Unit over the City of Doncaster Council's projections for jobs and economic benefits.
The Star's Harry Harrison spoke to the Mayor after the Chancellor Rachel Reeves gave the governments backing to the reopening of DSA.
Harry asked the Mayor to respond to those projection questions and this was Mr Coppard's response.
The Star's Harry Harrison spoke to the Mayor after the Chancellor Rachel Reeves gave the governments backing to the reopening of DSA.
Harry asked the Mayor to respond to those projection questions and this was Mr Coppard's response.
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00:00In today's speech from Rachel about growth across the UK she has said the
00:03government are now going to be supporting our plans to try and reopen
00:07DSA and create the sustainable aviation hub at Gateway East and that's hugely
00:11positive news. Doncaster Council are going to bring their business case to
00:15the MCA that I lead in the next few weeks then we can work with the
00:19government and Doncaster to run the rule over those sums and then hopefully come
00:23back with a decision in summer about how we can, if we can, reopen DSA.
00:27Doncaster Council are bringing their full business case to the MCA and at
00:31that point we have to do our governance, our due diligence to look at those
00:35numbers, probably do some other work besides about commercial viability,
00:38commercial opportunities, what we could do working with the government, working
00:42with DFT, working with the MOD, working with Ed Miliband's department, Desnes, to
00:46bring in that investment into Gateway East and Doncaster in order to be able
00:50to make DSA thrive and so that's what we've got to do now and that's why I say
00:53this is going to take a little bit more time. I know people are always
00:56frustrated with the amount of time this stuff takes but now we've got the
00:58government's backing we can work with them to look at those numbers and a load
01:01more things besides and hopefully come back with a decision in summer.