Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect on the operation of employment projects for people with disabilities of the end of their access to the European Social Fund.

In the Spending Review, the Chancellor announced the introduction of a UK Shared Prosperity Fund, which will succeed EU Structural Funds and help to level up and create opportunity for people and places across the UK. The government will publish a UK-wide investment framework in 2021.