Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley North)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department plans to (a) review and (b) recalculate funding formulas for the UK Shared Prosperity Fund before the next funding round.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a three year fund, meaning the current round will conclude in 2024/25 in line with the Spending Review period. Accordingly, local authorities have already been given allocations for the three years of the fund, up until March 2025.
Funding for funds and programmes beyond 2025 is a matter for the 2024 Spending Review.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley North)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to include the UK Shared Prosperity Fund in the streamlining of levelling up funding.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
The Levelling Up White Paper recognised that the local funding landscape is characterised by a patchwork of fragmented funds, separate but often overlapping, each seeking to improve place-based economic development.
Steps are already being taken to address this complexity. UKSPF was designed with simplification in mind and a full plan on simplification will be published shortly.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley North)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent steps his Department has taken to streamline sources of levelling up funding.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
The Levelling Up White Paper recognised that the local funding landscape is characterised by a patchwork of fragmented funds, separate but often overlapping, each seeking to improve place-based economic development.
Steps are already being taken to address this complexity. UKSPF was designed with simplification in mind and a full plan on simplification will be published shortly.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley North)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if his Department will (a) publish a list of local and combined authorities that have received full written feedback on their unsuccessful bids to Round 2 of the Levelling Up Fund and (b) provide a timescale for when South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority will receive their full written feedback.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave to Question UIN 129836 on 26 January 2023, and will provide further updates once written feedback has been provided.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley North)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to ensure that funds are delivered promptly to successful Levelling Up bids.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
We will announce the outcome of the second round of the Levelling Up Fund by the end of January 2023, which will see much needed investment awarded to help level up communities across the UK.
We will follow up with successful applicants promptly once the announcement is made to ensure that spend and delivery can get underway as quickly as possible.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley North)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to help ensure that council living accommodation in the Barnsley Central constituency is (a) not damp and (b) retrofitted to meet housing standards.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
Social landlords have a legal obligation to ensure their homes are decent and safe. The Secretary of State has written to social housing providers, and to Chief Executives of local authorities on these issues. In line with the practice of successive administrations, details of internal discussions are not normally disclosed.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley North)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has had recent conversations with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the impact of mould and damp issues on people’s (a) health and (b) wellbeing.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
Social landlords have a legal obligation to ensure their homes are decent and safe. The Secretary of State has written to social housing providers, and to Chief Executives of local authorities on these issues. In line with the practice of successive administrations, details of internal discussions are not normally disclosed.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley North)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent steps he has taken to help private housing residents resolve damp issues in their homes in the Barnsley Central constituency.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
Social landlords have a legal obligation to ensure their homes are decent and safe. The Secretary of State has written to social housing providers, and to Chief Executives of local authorities on these issues. In line with the practice of successive administrations, details of internal discussions are not normally disclosed.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley North)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many of the Levelling Up Director posts have been filled.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
Further to my answer to Question UIN 63318 on 19th October 2022, any announcements will be made in the usual way.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley North)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has held discussions with the (a) Secretary of State for Transport and (b) Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential impact of only delivering (i) core Northern Powerhouse Rail (ii) High Speed 2 to Manchester on his levelling up agenda.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
In line with successive administrations, details of internal discussions are not normally disclosed.