Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Tom Randall Excerpts
Wednesday 8th June 2022

(2 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Selaine Saxby Portrait Selaine Saxby (North Devon) (Con)
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1. What steps she is taking to help reduce regional inequality.

Tom Randall Portrait Tom Randall (Gedling) (Con)
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4. What steps she is taking to help reduce regional inequality.

Julian Sturdy Portrait Julian Sturdy (York Outer) (Con)
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8. What steps she is taking to help reduce regional inequality.

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Kemi Badenoch Portrait Kemi Badenoch
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Ilfracombe has been awarded more than £3 million to deliver a marine leisure centre at Larkstone cove, which will provide community facilities for local clubs and groups. More broadly, North Devon has been awarded £9.8 million of levelling-up funding to date. My hon. Friend will be pleased to know that the UK shared prosperity fund will also support our ambitions on levelling up, and that will provide £2.6 billion of new funding for local investment by March 2025.

Tom Randall Portrait Tom Randall
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In places such as the east midlands, we sometimes feel that we fare slightly less well than other areas. Can my hon. Friend tell me what the Government are doing to make sure that levelling up is genuinely driven by data and evidence?