Question follow-through · 3916
Towns Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will extend the Towns Deal Fund spend deadline for 12 months until 31 March 2027.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 5 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 5 Sept 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Communities and local government
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will extend the Towns Deal Fund spend deadline for 12 months until 31 March 2027.
5 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Towns Fund is due to close in March 2026 with the expectation that all funding recipients will have invested the entirety of their allocation by this date. The Chancellor’s July ‘Public Spending: Inheritance’ speech set out the state of the UK’s spend...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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