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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of progress on the Belfast City Deal; and if he will make a statement.

This Government has committed to a comprehensive and ambitious set of city deals in Northern Ireland. Belfast City Region are developing a set of proposals which they intend to submit to Government as the basis for a city deal discussion, and I look forward to seeing them.