UK ministers sort the £ 500 million transport package for Universal Theme Park

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The British government said he died, to improve the development of transport and infrastructure to provide a large Bedford Theme Park planned by the US Media Group Comcast.

The scale of a government’s taxpayer under the intensive financial pressure is a sign of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s willing to attract billions of dollars domestic investment There is no UKALIA economy.

Comcast, reviewing other countries on the website of the European Theme Park in April, announced Build a universal gravity At the site of 500 hectares of brickworks near Luton.

The ministers are currently scheduled for the government’s “Infrastructure Investment” around the website, but the value of the taxpayer was not previously detected.

The cost of improving the value of 500 million pounds around the site includes about £ 200, including about £ 200 at the new station and road works, including about £ 200 and road works, £ 270 million and about 200 pounds for road works.

The total package is still negotiated with Comcast and the details can still change, people close to negotiations.

The total value can continue to be higher, they said that they will still be decided with other elements of a wider support package outside the transport and infrastructure.

Comac The park would give a 50-billion pity for the British economy and when the building and 2031 were opened in the creative, hospitality and construction industry, he said he would provide about 28,000 jobs.

The company has not yet announced what rides will begin in Bedford’s Tema Park. This Universal epic resortLast month in Florida, lands covered by themed lands How to train the dragon and Harry Potter franchises.

About 8.5 mn is expected in Bedford in the first year. According to Comcast, the UK would receive an additional 14.1 billion pounds from the site for 20 years.

The UK Labor government competed to provide internal investment in the UK when promising to sweep local protests to large developments to increase economic growth. The effort was controlled in a large part of the country with intensive tension in public finance.

The government’s industrial strategy, published on Monday, promised to “demolish planning obstacles” and more infrastructure projects will be more infrastructure projects.

The ministers are expected to be a separate signed Luton Airport, a separate signing of the Luton Airport, as one of the main directions of foreign visitors to the park.

The site also hopes to include the delivery of the East West West Railway, including the Oxford-Cambridge corridor.

The Comcast Project, the Ministry of Directors, Communities and Local Governments, communities and local governments, it became clear that the project was supported, in April, this park park was “bargaining”.

Comcast, Treasury, Transport and Culture, Media and Sports Department refused to comment.

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