Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2017 to Question 66290, on employment: disadvantaged, what proportion of funding from the Government's £12 billion Local Growth Fund has been allocated to Easington constituency to date.

The Local Growth Fund is awarded to Local Enterprise Partnerships, who prioritise projects for funding in accordance with their local assurance frameworks.

Through its Growth Deal the North East Local Enterprise Partnership has prioritised two projects in Easington for support through the Local Growth Fund (LGF).

The first is the Horden (Peterlee) Station project which will be supported by £3.44m of LGF for the construction of a new station on the Durham Coast line. The second is for improvements to be made to the A19/A189 Seaham/Murton interchange, and will be funded by £4.4m of LGF. Both projects will help the residents of Easington and the North East to access new and existing job opportunities.