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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to announce the opening of the second round of the Community Ownership Fund to submissions.

Following a review of the lessons learned in the first bidding round, we are currently making changes to the Community Ownership Fund in order to support a greater number of community assets to benefit from the Fund. We will be publishing an updated prospectus ahead of the launch of the second round in Spring and we look forward to receiving more applications from community groups seeking to save their treasured community assets in the very near future.