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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of progress in implementing his Department's strategy set out in its paper entitled, Creating the conditions for integration, published in 2012.

As detailed in "Creating the Conditions for Integration", integration is achieved when neighbourhoods, families and individuals come together on issues that matter to them. We focus on supporting shared activities to bring people together to enable strong communities where people feel they belong. Since 2011, we have provided over £50 million to support integration projects. Decisions on the provision of funding for integration projects and activities are supported by an assessment of how the likely outcomes will contribute to the key contributors of integration, as set out in our paper. Each organisation receiving funding has a grant agreement against which it is monitored to ensure that agreed outcomes and milestones are met.