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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department made of the eligibility of towns in Leigh constituency when issuing funding from the (a) Stronger Towns Fund and (b) Towns Fund.

As part of the process of identifying the initial 100 places, towns have been chosen according to the same robust selection methodology. This took into account various qualitative and quantitative indicators. These included, income deprivation, skills, productivity, EU exit response, economic shocks, investment opportunities and policy alignment. The government will publish further details on how the fund will operate in due course.