Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment has been made of the adequacy of costs incurred by local authorities when applying for competitive Local Authority funding pots.

It is ultimately for individual local authorities to determine when and which funding pots to apply for but we also recognise that the process of applying for competitive funding does incur costs and have provided support to places accordingly; this includes as an example, the Levelling Up Fund which provided £125,000 of capacity funding to all eligible English local authorities.