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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to measure the impact of the projects funded through the Towns Fund on the change in the relative spatial deprivation of the most deprived areas of the relevant local authority.

The Towns Fund Monitoring and Evaluation strategy covers three levels of evaluation; process, impact and value for money. The Towns Fund impact evaluation will examine the impact of Towns Fund activities on a number of elements of spatial deprivation: employment, land values, resident incomes, business turnover and profits, investment, well-being and perception of place. This is all summarised in the Towns Fund Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy, which the Department will publish in due course.