Regional Planning and Development: Staffordshire

(asked on 16th March 2022) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the impact of the proposals in the Levelling Up White Paper on regional inequality in (a) Stoke-on-Trent and (b) Kidsgrove.


Answered by
Neil O'Brien Portrait
Neil O'Brien
This question was answered on 24th March 2022

The Levelling Up White paper sets out the Government’s agenda to empower local leaders and communities to address inequality. This builds on existing Government actions, with Stoke-on-Trent and Kidsgrove already benefitting from significant Government support.

£56 million from the Levelling Up Fund was recently awarded for three city centre regeneration bids across Stoke. The bids were assessed by DLUHC officials impartially and robustly against four key criteria, including an assessment of the economic case. Kidsgrove was awarded £16.9 million from the Towns Fund based on a robust assessment of their Town Investment Plan. I would encourage Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire to consider bids in the second round of the Levelling Up Fund, further details of which will be announced in the spring. Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire will also receive an allocation of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, when it launches later this Spring, to invest in local priority projects in the area which will also support levelling up.

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