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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will organise a national evaluation of the work of the Migration Impact Fund from 2009 to 2011, and publish lessons learned from that evaluation, with particular reference to their proposed Controlling Migration Fund.

The Controlling Migration Fund is a new fund focussing on delivering a benefit to the local population. Local authorities know their areas best, and the Controlling Migration Fund is designed to allow them to identify where migration is causing pressures, and to come forward with effective solutions. We are committed to reviewing the local services element of the Controlling Migration Fund in 2017/18. There are no plans to evaluate the Migration Impacts Fund, a separate Fund which closed in October 2010 beyond the assessment made at the time that it was ineffective and inefficient.