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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much has been allocated to local authorities from the Reopening High Streets Safely Fund to date.

We have provided £50 million to councils across England to help them ensure that high streets are able to safely reopen during the pandemic. The funding is coming from the European Regional Development Fund and has been allocated to all local authorities in England with responsibility for managing high streets (314). The amounts available to each local authority is based on the size of their populations. A minimum grant of £30,000 has been set to ensure those areas with very low populations do not get nominal amounts of funding. The full list of allocations was published on 29 May and can be found in Annex A of the Fund Guidance.