Helena Dollimore
Topical Questions
The following extract is from Housing, Communities and Local Government Questions on 28 October 2024.
Helena Dollimore
In 2022, Lubov Chernukhin opened an amusement centre in Hastings town centre known as Owens. The project received more than £400,000 of taxpayer money as part of the Conservatives’ levelling up towns fund plans. Ms Chernukhin has also donated more than £200,000 to the Conservative party. Shortly after opening, Owens closed, and earlier this month it was covered in boarding, which now dominates Hastings town centre. Can the Minister advise me how my constituents can get their money back, and how we can ensure that money is never wasted again like that?
[Official Report, 28 October 2024; Vol. 755, c. 525.]
Written correction submitted by the hon. Member for Hastings and Rye (Helena Dollimore):
Helena Dollimore
In 2022, Lubov Chernukhin opened an amusement centre in Hastings town centre known as Owens. The project received more than £400,000 of taxpayer money as part of the Conservatives’ levelling up towns fund plans. Ms Chernukhin has also donated more than £2 million to the Conservative party.