Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 24 December 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many applications were received for the first round of funding from the Local Digital Fund.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will provide a timeline for the distribution of the remaining funds from the Local Digital Fund.
The first round of the £7.5 million Local Digital Fund closed on 15 November 2018. A total of 77 full applications were received from local authorities; a shortlist of 27 was examined by an external panel of sector experts, who recommended that 16 receive funding in this round. The 16 successful projects will receive £1,251,492 in total.
We are also training over 1000 local authority staff in digital skills, which will start in January 2019.
Overall, we will be investing over £1 million in digital skills and releasing a further 2 rounds of funding next financial year. We will use the 2019-20 funding rounds to develop and scale the most promising innovations we’ve invested in this time around, and the team will be sharing their lessons and plans openly via the MHCLG Digital blog.
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