Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Towns Fund: Project Delivery

The following is an extract from Levelling Up, Housing and Communities questions on 16 October 2023.

Mark Eastwood (Dewsbury) (Con)
8. What steps he is taking to help ensure the delivery of projects supported by the Towns Fund.

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (Jacob Young)
We are supporting 101 towns through our £6.1 billion towns fund, helping to level up across the country. I thank my hon. Friend for all his efforts locally in ensuring that the £25 million Dewsbury town deal delivers the positive outcomes that we all wish to see for his constituents.

[Official Report, 16 October 2023, Vol. 738, c. 9.]

Letter of correction from the Under-Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, the hon. Member for Redcar (Jacob Young):

An error has been identified in the response to my hon. Friend the Member for Dewsbury (Mark Eastwood). The correct response should have been:

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (Jacob Young)
We are supporting 101 towns through our £3.6 billion towns fund, helping to level up across the country. I thank my hon. Friend for all his efforts locally in ensuring that the £25 million Dewsbury town deal delivers the positive outcomes that we all wish to see for his constituents.