Birmingham Jobs – 10,000 jobs to be created

PM meets Birmingham lobby to discuss future growth

Prime Minister David Cameron met with a cross-party delegation of Birmingham’s leaders last week in Downing Street to discuss the city’s transport and jobs situations.

The meeting was a follow-up to a deal agreed by Birmingham to work with neighbouring local authorities and the government to create more than 10,000 jobs in the region.  The deal includes the building of a new multi-million health and medical centre in Edgbaston.

However, ambitions to improve the transport links in the area of the airport had been quashed when the government did not give its approval.  Last week’s meeting was expected to propose an alternative way of using current funding streams to achieve the improvements needed by funnelling those streams into one infrastructure funding line.

Leaders were also expected to discuss the spending cuts implemented by the government but the main focus was certainly intended to be the transport project.

One of the delegation stated that the meeting would set out a position shared by Birmingham City Council, businesses and the local enterprise partnership, with a view to creating and delivering the government’s aims of economic and jobs growth, and hoped that the Prime Minister would be supportive.