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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when his Department plans to issue a prospectus for the Community Ownership Fund.

My Department will issue the prospectus for the Community Ownership Fund shortly. In most cases, community groups will be able to make the case for up to £250,000 match funding which communities have raised themselves. The prospectus will set out detailed advice on how to structure a bid, what activity will support this, what information to include, and the criteria by which bids will be assessed.