Glasgow deserves share of London Olympic cash, says SNP candidate

SNP by election candidate David Kerr has vowed to fight for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games to be afforded its share of Olympic regeneration money. Mr Kerr said that Glasgow deserves the same deal as London and that, if elected, he will put pressure on the Treasury to pay Scotland its fair share of regeneration investment around the London 2012 Olympics. He claims spending by Westminster on regeneration around the London Olympics should generate s165m - s33m per annum over the five years to 2012-13 - for Scotland under the Barnett formula. Mr Kerr said: "The Commonwealth Games is as important to Glasgow as the Olympics are to London. "The Scottish Government is putting in 80 per cent of the funding for the Commonwealth Games - but we are doing it without the s33 million a year of regeneration funding that should be coming Glasgow's way."If London can get central funding to regenerate their East End because of the Olympics why should Glasgow not get the Barnett Consequentials from this spending to help regenerate the city following the Commonwealth Games?"