Letter: Has Bob Seely single handedly killed the Island Deal?
Cllr Richard Quigley says he believes Bob Seely has single handedly killed the Island deal this week during his justification for why he voted in favour of Boris Johnson
Island Deal
The outcome of a study by Portsmouth University, commissioned by the Island Independents during their administration (2013-2017), found that it cost Isle of Wight council £6.4 million more each year to provide services due to being an island.
In following years, successive administrations have called for an Island Deal, pressuring the Government to recognise the Island’s unique status.
Below are articles relating to the Island Deal.
Seely’s statement on Johnson support now centre of Commons row and accused of looking ‘awfully dodgy’
Bob Seely saying he’d received assurances on IW funding before voting to support Boris Johnson was subject of a Commons row yesterday, with the toned-down accusation being it looked ‘awfully dodgy’ after Seely challenged it
All sorts of trouble for Bob Seely following his Johnson vote justification
The MPs’ reference to reminding ministers about the Island Deal before voting to keep Boris Johnson in power is being called out on Twitter and now the national press are running it too
Bob Seely responds to Letter calling for Conservative MPs to start ‘genuinely’ delivering for their communities
Raye Peterson had written a Letter to the Editor suggesting that Conservative MPs would have to start ‘genuinely’ delivering for their communities. IW MP, Bob Seely, saw the letter and has responded
Isle of Wight Green councillors to support Alliance budget for the coming year
with a focus on the inclusion of housing affordable for Island residents, coastal flood protections and a new Mission Zero Community Hub, Green Councillors announce they will support the Alliance budget this Wednesday
Levelling up cash from Government ‘not enough’ agrees Isle of Wight MP
The £1m cash boost was described as ‘highly unsatisfactory’ and ‘profoundly disappointing’ by the Alliance administration last week. MP says he agrees it 'was not enough'
Isle of Wight council ‘profoundly disappointed’ at £1m levelling up money
It is six years since the Government accepted a peer-reviewed study from the University of Portsmouth which calculated the extra cost of providing local government services on the Isle of Wight was £6.4m
Gove’s £1m for Isle of Wight slammed as ‘highly unsatisfactory’ and ‘profoundly disappointing’ (updated)
Cllr Jarman told the meeting such a small amount was ‘illogical’, because the authority had provided “copious amounts of rational evidence to secure the future of the Island, but [was] being repeatedly ignored”
Isle of Wight council budget: Opposition councillors react
Opposition councillors react to budget plans published last week by the Alliance Group, who have been in charge at County Hall for nine months
Alliance say their proposed budget will ‘push reset button and reverse previous annual cycle of cuts and decline’
Cllr Jarman says "the £3 million of savings required by the process we have inherited, will in fact be mainly savings and efficiencies, rather than continuing the ongoing process of cuts"
‘Quite clear Bob is more interested in Bob than anyone on the Island’ says Labour councillor
Cllr Quigley said, "If Bob Seely was truly interested in the liberty and wellbeing of Isle of Wight residents and the UK population at large, he has had many chances to prove it"
Nothing solid from Prime Minister as Bob Seely asks about ‘The Island Deal’ at PMQs
The Prime Minister said the department is carefully considering the details of the study, about which the MP said the final calculations are due imminently