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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure that allocations of funding to Northern Ireland under the UK Shared Prosperity Fund take into account the level of other funding streams to that nation.

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund will help to level up and create opportunity across the UK in places most in need, such as ex-industrial areas, deprived towns and rural and coastal communities, and for people who face labour market barriers.

We will ramp up funding so that total domestic UK-wide funding will at least match EU receipts reaching around £1.5 billion a year.

The Government will publish a UK-wide investment framework later this year and confirm the funding profile at the next Spending Review.