Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much money from the Transforming Cities Fund his Department plans to allocate to each NUTS 1 region.
Half of the Transforming Cities Fund will be allocated to the six mayoral combined authorities on a per capita basis. These are:
Combined Authority | Amount |
Greater Manchester | £243m |
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough | £74m |
West Midlands | £250m |
Tees Valley | £59m |
West of England | £80m |
Liverpool City Region | £134m |
Total | £840m |
The remainder of the fund will be allocated to other major cities in England via a competitive process. Further details of this process will be announced shortly.