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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when the Government's consultation on the Shared Prosperity Fund will open; and when the Government plans to publish a response to that consultation.

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund will be a domestic programme of investment to boost productivity and reduce economic inequality across the country, following our departure from the European Union. We will consult widely on the design of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund in 2018 and will work with the devolved administrations prior to the public consultation.