Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jas Athwal and Elaine Stewart

Monday 20th January 2025 Commons Chamber

[Jas Athwal (Ilford South) (Lab)]

13. What discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on using local growth funding to help increase economic growth.

[Elaine Stewart (Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) (Lab)]

22. What discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on using local growth funding to help increase economic growth.

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government (Alex Norris)]

Local growth funding is crucial to our growth mission and to tackling regional inequalities. The Government will set out a refreshed approach to local growth funding at the multiyear spending review in the spring. That will end the beauty parades and short-term decision making and put local communities in charge of their own destiny, just as we committed to at the general election.