Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to monitor and evaluate the (a) High Street Fund, (b)Levelling Up Fund and (c) UK Shared Prosperity Fund delivery against objectives.

The Monitoring and Evaluation Strategies for the Future High Street Fund and Levelling Up Fund are available on Gov.uk. These set out the department's plans for measuring and evaluating the impact both funds and the impact they have had on tackling inequalities.

We plan to publish the Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy for UK Shared Prosperity Fund later this year. These set out the department's plans for monitoring and evaluation for the fund.

Current plans are to collect monitoring data to the end of the fund periods for the three funds. Plans for measuring longer term impacts beyond the end of the fund periods are currently being developed.