Part of Housing, Communities and Local Government – in the House of Commons at on 22 February 2021.
Kate Hollern
Shadow Minister (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
Few details of the shared prosperity fund have been published. Will the Minister guarantee that the fund will be used to tackle regional inequality, as intended, that no region will lose out and that the Government will not force councils to compete against one another, wasting time and resources when they could be getting on with providing services that local people depend on?
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