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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating a specific levelling up fund for former coalfield communities; and if he will commission a levelling up review to consider that matter.

Former coalfield communities are benefiting from the Levelling Up Fund, which just announced a second round of successful projects, including transport decarbonisation in the North East.