It is appalling Welsh ministers are spending nearly £20m preparing for a planned £1 Billion M4 relief road around Newport, Labour AM Jenny Rathbone has said.
Construction is not due to begin until 2018 but “assessment work and public engagement” is costing £19.8m, and Economy Minister Edwina Hart defended the spend on BBC Wales, saying it was “absolutely normal” for such a project which is due to open in 2018.
Europe’s component suppliers have backed their car maker clients and called for a delay implementing the tougher new emissions regulations after the row over the Volkswagen deceit devices in diesel engines to pass tests.
With regard to recent inquiries by US authorities into so-called defeat devices, applied to vehicles equipped with a Diesel engine, CLEPA, the European Association of Automotive Suppliers, expresses its concern about the potential image damages to industry and wants proposed tougher tests delayed as well to give the industry time to make the changes to engines.
A large investment programme to develop the BMW Hams Hall engine plant near Birmingham is complete.
The production of new three and four-cylinder engines is already being ramped up on brand-new production lines, and over one million components will be machined at the plant for the first time this year as supply extends to other plants in the Group.
