One Northeast is a joke, it should be called One Tyne and Wear, or even just One Newcastle!
Currently at least 8 out of the 12 board members are from the Newcastle/Sunderland area or have business/personal interests in the area and the other 4 I not sure on! Plenty of conflicts of interest there!
SWBKCB what I believe the MP is saying is that the One Northeast invested heavily in Newcastle city and the surrounding area to a detrimental affect to the rest of the region and that has had a knock on effect at MME.
If you ask anyone from the southern area of the northeast if One Northeast has been a success and distributed the cash fairly you'll get a resounding no!
For some reason Government believes that the North East is Newcastle and Newcastle alone!