(4 hours ago)DeltaMan wrote People read that quote and think he's asking for money -He could equally be suggesting similar levels of funding as now, but for a longer period
For.example, there are local authorities that issue one year ENCTS settlements. I imagine in an area such as the East Riding, that is a critical income stream. If they only issue one year settlements, there is no way EYMS can plan for new services 24/36 months in the future.
Yeah I read it as continuing longer term rather than an increase - however to me that is still asking for more money from the public purse as it has to come out of a budget, at the expense of something else, somewhere each year. Some of the measures mentioned in the article were meant to be temporary, to support recovery post Covid. We are way past the pandemic now, yet it's become normalised to expect continuation of public funding to prop up a commercial outfit. We've seen it all before with likes of Kick Start funding and whatever was before that - supposedly to grow operations to be commercially sustainable, subsidy comes to it's planned end, operators cut the improvements back. Should be either public, or private - not this worst of both worlds madness that just drives instability and decline.