Former LEP chair accused of cover-up over deal

By Mark Conrad | 23 January 2018

MPs have accused an ex-local enterprise partnership (LEP) chairman of a ‘cover up’ after he refused to reveal details of a deal to develop taxpayer-funded land.

Mark Reeve, ex-chair of the Greater Cambridgeshire and Greater Peterborough LEP (GCGPLEP), refused the Public Accounts Committee’s (PAC) invitation to reveal when a firm he also chairs signed a £20m deal to develop an enterprise zone at Alconbury Weald. The LEP has invested millions of pounds in the site.

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