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MPs attack Gateway jobs strategy

Holly Sutton, Regeneration & Renewal, 22 June 2007

Gateway vision: but how many jobs will go to locals?

Gateway vision: but how many jobs will go to locals?

Senior government officials responsible for the development of the Thames Gateway were attacked by MPs last week over their refusal to set targets for the number of local people who should get a share in 180,000 jobs set to be created in the region.

Permanent secretary for the Department for Communities and Local Government Peter Housden, DCLG director-general of programmes, policy and innovation Richard McCarthy, and Thames Gateway chief executive Judith Armitt all faced...

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