Exclusive: Nusrat Ghani joined company leading consortium that won £33m grant after backing its bid in letter to business minister
Former Tory shipping minister Nusrat Ghani is facing criticism for taking up a £60,000 role at a firm leading a maritime consortium which successfully bid for a publicly-funded £33m grant that she lobbied a fellow minister for while she was serving in government.
The Belfast Maritime Consortium, led by Artemis Technologies, won the multi-million pound UK government innovation grant in May to develop zero-emission ferries in Belfast, pledging to “revolutionise the future of maritime transport”.
