Chancellor bypassed Whitehall to promise money for scheme,MPs toldThe chancellor George Osborne promised London’s mayor, Boris Johnson, or funding for the city’s Garden Bridge scheme without scrutiny by the Department for Transport,and the project would probably have been blocked had the proposal gone through normal channels, parliament’s spending watchdog has concluded.
The National Audit Office says that the public money being poured into the £175m Thames bridge is at greater risk than the private funds, and that a “tall degree of uncertainty” hangs over the controversial scheme’s value for money.
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Source: theguardian.com