Levelling-up Fund Round 2

Debate between Lucy Frazer and Mary Glindon

Thursday 19th January 2023 Commons Chamber

[Lucy Frazer]

As I mentioned earlier, we are regenerating Catterick, the area of Richmond where the infantry are based. It is important that the people who serve our country are looked after. Ukrainian troops were also based in the area while they were training.

[Mary Glindon (North Tyneside) (Lab)]

The unsuccessful bids of North Shields and Wallsend were capped at 80% by the Government, who deemed our area not to be a priority, yet the Prime Minister’s leafy constituency and many marginal Tory seats were deemed a priority. Will the Government urgently commit to a review of the levelling-up fund’s allocation criteria to ensure that money goes to areas where it is really needed, such as North Tyneside?

[Lucy Frazer]

As I mentioned, the criteria will be published in due course. Forty-five per cent. of the funding has been allocated to Opposition areas.