Part of Housing, Communities and Local Government – in the House of Commons at on 14 June 2021.
Patricia Gibson
Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
The Public Accounts Committee delivered a damning verdict on the towns fund, saying that the Minister’s Department had
“not been open about the process it followed and would not disclose the reasoning for selecting or excluding towns”— for funding. In view of that, what specific measures will the Minister announce today to ensure that the distribution of the levelling-up fund and shared prosperity fund will be both transparent and free from political bias, unlike the towns fund?
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