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Written Question
UK Shared Prosperity Fund
Monday 29th March 2021

Asked by: Robert Neill (Conservative - Bromley and Chislehurst)

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what progress has been made on the process for allocation of funding under the Shared Prosperity Fund.

Answered by Luke Hall

The November 2020 Spending Review set out the main strategic elements of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund in a Heads of Terms. Further details will be set out in a UK-wide Investment Framework to be published later this year and funding profile for the UK Shared Prosperity Fund will be set at the next Spending Review. The UK Government is providing an additional £220 million funding through the UK Community Renewal Fund to help local areas prepare for the launch of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund in 2022.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 22 Mar 2021
Fire Safety Bill

"I have great respect for my hon. Friend the Member for Thirsk and Malton (Kevin Hollinrake) and his expertise in this policy area. I accept that the amendment is not at all perfect, but it is the only thing that is currently available to keep the issue in play, which …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 10 Mar 2021
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"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. I congratulate the hon. Member for Vauxhall (Florence Eshalomi) on securing this debate.

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 10 Feb 2021
Local Government Finance (England)

"It is a pleasure to speak in this debate. The funding settlement with an above inflation increase, given the circumstances and the economic pressures, particularly those of the pandemic, is very welcome to my local authority in Bromley and elsewhere. However, I hope the Minister will recognise that that ought …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Jan 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

" What steps his Department is taking to ensure that leaseholders are not held responsible for the costs of remediating dangerous cladding. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Jan 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Government have always been right to say that leaseholders should not bear the costs of a scandal for which they bore no responsibility. Will my right hon. Friend the Minister confirm that it will be wholly—[Inaudible]—for them to be expected to meet the costs by way of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 17 Dec 2020
Provisional Local Government Finance Settlement

"The additional funding for local authorities like Bromley is very welcome and I also welcome my right hon. Friend’s desire to move back to multi-year settlements as soon as possible. However, for those of us whose councils have social services responsibilities, the ongoing upward pressure of adult social care costs …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Dec 2020
United Kingdom Internal Market Bill

"I welcome the fact that the Government have accepted that it was unwise, if I can put it charitably, to have certain clauses in this Bill that might have impugned our international reputation for supporting the rule of law. I welcome the Minister’s approach and that of his colleague Lord …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Dec 2020
United Kingdom Internal Market Bill

"Nobody else has been giving way, with every respect to my hon. Friend. Other people want to get in. I have said what I have to say. In fairness, he and I could happily go on all day about this in a friendly manner of disagreement, but I think possibly …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Dec 2020
United Kingdom Internal Market Bill

"The Minister will appreciate, having had some hand in the amendments, that I have an interest in this matter. He will have seen that a statement has been put out by the Government—following the meeting of the Joint Committee earlier today—in which they undertake that they would, in effect, remove …..."
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