The Government will not fund any of the "sporting elements" of the redevelopment of Manchester United's Old Trafford ground and its surrounding area, the Business Secretary has said.Jonathan Reynolds told BBC Breakfast: "It's a hugely exciting project. As someone who lives in Greater Manchester myself, I recognise the scale of the opportunity around the wider housing and residential and leisure offer that could be put in that place."We are going to work with the Mayor, Andy Burnham, who is a tra

The Government will not fund any of the "sporting elements" of the redevelopment of Manchester United's Old Trafford ground and its surrounding area, the Business Secretary has said.Jonathan Reynolds told BBC Breakfast: "It's a hugely exciting project. As someone who lives in Greater Manchester myself, I recognise the scale of the opportunity around the wider housing and residential and leisure offer that could be put in that place."We are going to work with the Mayor, Andy Burnham, who is a trailblazer for these kinds of projects, really showing what local economic leadership can be. We've got a whole range of tools, whether that's our National Wealth Fund to partner with industry, putting money into local areas, the planning changes that will allow these things to happen specifically."We are not funding any of the sporting elements of that, but of course the wider area, transport, housing, we want to work with local areas to deliver that with our trailblazing mayors like Andy, and th