The petition of residents of the Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North constituency,
Declares that this constituency should be considered for support from the Government’s forthcoming Plan for Neighbourhoods funding.
The petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons urge the Government to re-allocate funding under its Plan for Neighbourhoods to support Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North.
And the petitioners remain, etc.—[Presented by Liam Byrne, Official Report, 16 September 2025; Vol. 772, c. 1464.]
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Observations from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government (Miatta Fahnbulleh):
The Government have announced their flagship pride in place programme, supporting 244 of Great Britain’s most in-need neighbourhoods with up to £20 million each over the next decade. Funding for the pride in place programme is going to communities with the greatest need—places that have been overlooked and stand to benefit most. This includes Glebe farm, in Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North.
For the purposes of selecting places, “neighbourhoods” are approximated as 2021 middle-layer super-output areas, which are defined as areas that contain between 2,000 and 6,000 households and have a population of roughly 5,000 to 15,000 people. As such, we are allocating funding to these MSOA areas, rather than to whole constituencies.
The neighbourhoods (MSOAs) across England have been selected through a robust metric-based methodology, which considers deprivation (the index of multiple deprivation) and community need (the community needs index) to identify areas with the poorest social and economic outcomes. The full list of areas and details of how they are selected is set out here: pride in place programme phase 2: methodology note - gov.uk.
Although this does not cover all areas, every part of the country also benefits from our wider pride in place strategy, which puts people in control of their neighbourhoods. It includes a number of powers and opportunities to support our efforts to build stronger communities, create thriving places and help communities to take back control of their own lives and areas.