Minister hits back at sacked designer’s assembly claims_2
17 August 2012
The Welsh Assembly has defended its procurement practices for the construction of the new assembly building after damning criticism by the Richard Rogers Partnership (RRP), which designed the building.
Following its sacking by Edwina Hart, the assembly’s finance minister, RRP claimed that it was being made a scapegoat for a “highly inflexible, adversarial and divisive procurement process”.
The company blamed the ballooning costs of the building - up from an original budget of £13.8 million to £24 million, according to the Welsh Assembly - on the...