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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what criteria he used to choose projects for accelerated funding from the Towns Fund.

Following the Prime Minister’s announcement on 30 June 2020, Government brought forward funding to support capital projects that will have an immediate impact across the 101 towns, in particular addressing some of the challenges of Covid-19.

Local authorities worked with Town Deal Boards to identify suitable projects, and Section 151 officers provided confirmation that projects were strategically viable in their own right, and represented value for money.