Welcome Back Fund

(asked on 18th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much and what proportion of the Welcome Back Fund has been distributed to local authorities.


Answered by
Neil O'Brien Portrait
Neil O'Brien
This question was answered on 21st January 2022

Our £106 million Welcome Back Fund (WBF) is playing a vital role in supporting local authorities and their communities to bounce back from the Covid-19 pandemic.


This funding, which is available until 31 March 2022, has been allocated to 314 local authorities in England on a per capita basis. Councils can incur expenditure on eligible activities and claim up to the full amount of their allocation from Government in quarterly arrears. It is up to places to decide what to spend this funding on, having regard to the Fund's eligibility criteria.

More information, including a list of all local authority funding allocations, can be found in the WBF Guidance and FAQs on GOV.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/welcome-back-fund.

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