PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Local Government Finance (18 December 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many applications were made under Part A of the Transformation Challenge Award Scheme 2015-16; how many such applications were successful; and what proportion of the funds set aside for Part A awards was allocated.

Asked by:
Sir Christopher Chope (Conservative)

My Department received eight expressions of interest for part A of the 2015-16 Transformation Challenge Award. Seven authorities submitted full applications from which five were successful.

The fund was not split between part A and part B of the scheme. The total fund was awarded to the strongest applications.

Answered by:
Kris Hopkins (Conservative)
5 January 2015