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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of a one year spending review on the proposed UK Shared Prosperity Fund; and what the timetable is for the Shared Prosperity Fund to open.

The Government is committed to creating the UK Shared Prosperity Fund to succeed European structural funds and provide vital investment in local economies.?The fund will bind together the whole of the United Kingdom, tackling inequality and deprivation in each of our four nations.

We will set out further details on the UK Shared Prosperity Fund following the Spending Review.