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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that funding allocations from the Community Ownership Fund have benefited communities in areas across all of Northern Ireland.

The Community Ownership Fund was launched as a competitive fund under the previous government. On 23 December 2024 this government announced the largest ever allocation of funding through the programme. This funded regeneration and renovation of a range of cultural, sports and community space projects across Northern Ireland in constituencies of all the major parties.

The UK Government is investing £45.5 million each year of the SR period to provide targeted long term funding to support vital initiatives such as economic inactivity and local business support right across NI as part of the new Local Growth Fund.