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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2015 to Question 6223, what measures he has used to assess the results and performance of the £50 million invested through the integration strategy.

My Department monitors integration projects to ensure they deliver the agreed outcomes and milestones set out in their grant agreement. For example, our investment of £8 million since 2011 in the Near Neighbours programme has supported over 924 local projects that bring different faith and ethnic groups together, benefitting over 650,000 local people; while funding of £10 million has established over 600 new cadet units providing opportunities for over 11,000 young people.