PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Regional Planning and Development: Greater London (26 October 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to ensure that communities in London experiencing high levels of poverty are not be excluded from the Government's policies on levelling up; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by:
Feryal Clark (Labour)

Levelling up is at the heart of the Government's agenda. Levelling up means empowering local leaders and communities to drive real change; boosting living standards, particularly where they are lower; spreading opportunity and improving public services, particularly where they are weaker; and restoring local pride across the UK. SR21 announced the first places to receive £1.7 billion funding from the £4.8 billion Levelling Up Fund, putting community priorities at the heart of our investment through delivery of local priorities. In the capital, Ealing, Newham, Brent, Wandsworth, and Tower Hamlets have all been successful in round one of the Levelling Up Fund and will receive £64.9 million to deliver community enhancing projects.

Answered by:
Neil O'Brien (Conservative)
3 November 2021