The chair of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has backed calls for an investigation into the Teesworks freeport project.
Labour’s Dame Meg Hillier urged ministers to allow a full National Audit Office investigation into the flagship government-backed regeneration scheme in the North East, which is overseen by Conservative mayor Ben Houchen.
In a letter to the Financial Times, Hiller said it would be “wise” for levelling up secretary Michael Gove to order a probe, adding that the existing financial oversight system for England’s directly elected mayors was not “robust”.
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