Asked by: James Grundy (Conservative - Leigh)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the cumulative total is of Government funding in response to covid-19 that has been provided to Wigan Council.
Answered by Luke Hall - Minister of State (Education)
I refer the Hon. Gentleman to the answer I gave on 26 February 2021 to question 153417.
Asked by: James Grundy (Conservative - Leigh)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the cumulative total is of covid-19 related funding allocated to Wigan Council.
Answered by Luke Hall - Minister of State (Education)
Wigan Council has so far received almost £28 million of emergency grant funding since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic as part of its share of the £4.6 billion of unringfenced support to councils across the country.
Wigan has also received £9.3 million through the Contain Outbreak Management Fund, £5.7 million through the Infection Control Fund, £3.1 million via the sales, fees and charges income support scheme and £1.1 million via the Covid Winter Grant Scheme. This additional £19.2 million of support alongside almost £3 million of other grant funding to Wigan comes to a cumulative total of £50.1 million of funding since the start of the Pandemic.
In addition, Wigan Council will receive over £9 million in unringfenced funding to address the impacts of COVID-19 in the next financial year. This is alongside an increase in settlement Core Spending Power up to over £11 million.
Source of COVID-19 Support | Allocated to Wigan (£m) |
Total COVID-19 Additional Funding for LAs for 2020/21 (£m) | 28.0 |
Further Direct Support - 20/21 | |
COMF - Test and Trace Service Support Grant (£m) | 2.4 |
COMF - Additional Surge Funding (£m) | 6.9 |
ASC Infection Control Fund(Round 1 and 2)(£m) | 5.7 |
ASC Workforce Capacity Fund (£m) | 0.8 |
ASC Rapid Testing Fund (£m) | 0.7 |
Clinically Extremely Vulnerable (CEV) Funding (£m) | 0.2 |
Compliance and Enforcement Grant (£m) | 0.2 |
Reopening High Streets Safely Fund (£m) | 0.3 |
Provisional Rough Sleeping emergency funding (£m) | 0.006 |
Next Steps Accommodation Programme (NSAP) (£m) | 0.3 |
Local Authority Emergency Assistance Grant for Food and Essential Supplies (£m) | 0.4 |
DWP Covid Winter Grant Scheme (£m) | 1.1 |
Sales, Fees and Charges Compensation Scheme (£m) | 3.1 |
Total direct COVID-19 funding for Wigan for 2020/21 (£m) | 50.1 |
Settlement | |
Annual Change (£m) | 11.3 |
Annual Change (%) | 4.7% |
21/22 Funding | |
Additional Unringfenced Tranche Funding for 2021/22 | 9.5 |
Asked by: James Grundy (Conservative - Leigh)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department received applications from Wigan council for funding from the Future High Streets Fund for projects in Leigh constituency.
Answered by Kelly Tolhurst
I was pleased to announce on 26 December that Wigan was successful in securing a provisional offer of £16.6 million from the Future High Streets Fund. This will support Wigan Council deliver a much-needed boost to Wigan Town Centre at this challenging time and has the potential to benefit the wider Wigan area, including in Leigh.
Asked by: James Grundy (Conservative - Leigh)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether Wigan Council applied to the Towns Fund.
Answered by Luke Hall - Minister of State (Education)
An initial 101 towns were selected to submit proposals for Towns Deals as a part of the £3.6 billion Towns Fund. There was no application process.
Wigan is, however, one of 101 places shortlisted for the Future High Streets Fund.?We are now in the final stages of the assessment process and expect to announce the outcome of that competition before the end of the year.
Levelling up continues to be at the heart of this Government’s agenda and that is why at Spending Review, we announced a new £4 billion Levelling Up Fund which will invest in local infrastructure that has a visible impact on people and their communities and will support economic recovery.
Asked by: James Grundy (Conservative - Leigh)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department received applications from Wigan Council for funding from the Towns Fund for projects in Leigh constituency.
Answered by Luke Hall - Minister of State (Education)
An initial 101 towns were selected to submit proposals for Towns Deals as a part of the £3.6 billion Towns Fund. There was no application process.
Wigan is, however, one of 101 places shortlisted for the Future High Streets Fund.?We are now in the final stages of the assessment process and expect to announce the outcome of that competition before the end of the year.
Levelling up continues to be at the heart of this Government’s agenda and that is why at Spending Review, we announced a new £4 billion Levelling Up Fund which will invest in local infrastructure that has a visible impact on people and their communities and will support economic recovery.