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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to his answer of 16 July 2018 to Question 162084 Retail Trade: Ellesmere Port and Neston, how much of that £201.1 million is planned to be spent in Ellesmere Port & Neston Constituency.

The Government is investing £201.1 million in Growth Deals in the Cheshire and Warrington Local Enterprise Partnership area. Growth Deal 1 and 2 allocations are creating up to 12,000 jobs and generating up to £280 million in public and private investment.

Within the Ellesmere Port & Neston Constituency, the Cheshire & Warrington Local Enterprise Partnership plans to spend up to £18.9 million of its Growth Deal to deliver four key projects: the Thornton Energy Demonstrator; Cheshire College South & West’s Ellesmere Port & Chester Campus; the Ellesmere Port Central Development Zone and the Sutton Way Boulevard. The Energy Demonstrator and the College projects are already completed.

All projects will be approved and delivered in accordance with the Local Enterprise Partnership’s published Local Assurance & Accountability Framework.