{"id":116207,"date":"2022-06-08T11:27:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T10:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/politicscouk.wpengine.com\/?p=116207"},"modified":"2022-06-22T21:07:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T20:07:24","slug":"ministers-blasted-for-poor-transparency-over-billions-in-levelling-up-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/news\/2022\/06\/08\/ministers-blasted-for-poor-transparency-over-billions-in-levelling-up-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministers blasted for poor transparency over billions in \u2018Levelling Up\u2019 funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new report from the Public Accounts committee (PAC) has accused the government of failing to be transparent over the \u201cgambling\u201d of billions in funding awards for \u201cLevelling Up\u201d programmes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PAC sat that ministers finalised the principles for awarding the first round of \u00a31.7 billion of Levelling Up funds only once they knew the identities and scores of shortlisted bidders \u2013, saying \u201cDLUHC has past form with this\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In November 2020 the committee reported that the selection process for awarding the Towns Fund had \u201cnot been impartial\u201d and raised concerns about the lack of transparency over the towns selected.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The committee remains concerned over the timing of Ministerial input for funding awards, and also that realistic bids to the Levelling Up Fund have missed out at the expense of projects claiming to be \u2018shovel-ready\u2019 that have \u201csince been beset with delays\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2019, the committee highlighted how DLUHC did not know the impact of its \u00a312 billion Local Growth Fund &#8211; but had also decided not to evaluate it, and says now that \u201caccountability for levelling up outcomes remains unsatisfactory\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ln3iIIPsHe\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/reference\/levelling-up\/\">Levelling up<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content lazyload\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Levelling up&#8221; &#8212; Politics.co.uk\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/reference\/levelling-up\/embed\/#?secret=rvpbBA4y51#?secret=ln3iIIPsHe\" data-secret=\"ln3iIIPsHe\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"about:blank\" data-load-mode=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government has spent billions on local growth policies over many years without \u201ca strong understanding of what works\u201d or how it will measure performance across different geographical areas and timescales and must \u201cdemonstrate how the priorities of the devolved administrations will be addressed\u201d in local growth funds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MPs say they are: &#8220;concerned that optimism bias has meant realistic bids to the Levelling Up Fund have missed out at the expense of \u2018shovel-ready\u2019 projects that have since been beset with delays&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dame Meg Hillier MP,\u00a0 who chairs the committee, said: \u201cThe PAC has reported too often on the problems the government has with delivery of its major projects, programmes and promises.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWithout clear parameters, plans or measures of success it\u2019s hard to avoid the appearance that government is just gambling taxpayers&#8217; money on policies and programmes that are little more than a slogan, retrofitting the criteria for success and not even bothering to evaluate if it worked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe nation is being squeezed harder than it has for decades, there is no more to throw away like this. The government must learn again to account to taxpayers for its use of their money.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A spokesperson for the DLUHC said: \u201cThe first round of the Levelling Up Fund is delivering vital investment to communities across the UK that have for too long been overlooked and undervalued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe assessment process was transparent, robust and fair and the criteria included the need for projects to be deliverable and to fuel regeneration and growth to level up areas most in need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFurther rounds of the Levelling Up Fund will continue this work, with unsuccessful bidders given feedback and able to apply again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from the Public Accounts committee (PAC) has accused the government of failing to be transparent over the \u201cgambling\u201d of billions in funding awards for \u201cLevelling Up\u201d programmes. PAC sat that ministers finalised the principles for awarding the first round of \u00a31.7 billion of Levelling Up funds only once they knew the identities&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/news\/2022\/06\/08\/ministers-blasted-for-poor-transparency-over-billions-in-levelling-up-funds\/\" title=\"Read Ministers blasted for poor transparency over billions in \u2018Levelling Up\u2019 funds\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":286,"featured_media":116211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[5781,3189,38],"editors-picks":[],"maps":[],"class_list":["post-116207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-levelling-up","tag-meg-hillier","tag-michael-gove"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ministers blasted for poor transparency over billions in \u2018Levelling Up\u2019 funds - Politics.co.uk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/news\/2022\/06\/08\/ministers-blasted-for-poor-transparency-over-billions-in-levelling-up-funds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ministers blasted for poor transparency over billions in \u2018Levelling Up\u2019 funds - Politics.co.uk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A new report from the Public Accounts committee (PAC) has accused the government of failing to be transparent over the \u201cgambling\u201d of billions in funding awards for \u201cLevelling Up\u201d programmes. 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