Inverness MP hopes Chancellor will announce City Deal worth £300million for Highland capital

Inverness MP hopes budget speech will announce a City Deal for Highland capital, worth up to £300million.

Published 15th Mar 2016

We’ll find out this lunchtime what George Osborne has in his red box.

Pressure’s growing on the Chancellor to offer more support for the oil and gas industry in Scotland.

He’ll deliver his budget this afternoon – when it’s thought he’ll cut the supplementary charge on oil companies’ profits by a further 10-per-cent.

Meanwhile the MP for Inverness, Badenoch, and Strathspey's telling MFR News he hopes that the Chancellor will use his budget speech to announce a City Deal for the Highland capital...