Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect the final payments to be made to beneficiaries of the Levelling Up Fund.

Whilst many projects have progressed at pace, we are aware that others have faced difficult delivery conditions which may make it hard to deliver by the original programme end date of March 2026.

With this in mind, we are looking at whether there is scope for places to move some spending into future years. This is dependent on Departmental budgets which will be agreed as part of the Spending Review process for 2026-2029. We will communicate the outcome to grant recipients following Spring Budget.

We still encourage projects to deliver as quickly as they can, so that the positive impacts of this investment can be felt by communities more quickly.