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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding for levelling up.

Levelling up underpins this Government’s ambitions. My department alone has allocated over £9.9 billion from levelling up funds since 2019 and over £11 billion in long-term flexible investment funds for Mayoral Combined Authorities and areas with recently-agreed devolution deals. Across government, we are investing in urban transport, spending millions on local bus services; refocusing cultural and R&D spend outside London; successfully recruiting 20,000 police; establishing over 100 Community Diagnostic Centres; and much more.