Question follow-through · 4599
Community Development: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Communities Opportunities Fund has been abolished.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 17 Sept 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Communities Opportunities Fund has been abolished.
11 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Chancellor’s July ‘Public Spending: Inheritance’ speech set out the state of the UK’s spending inheritance from the previous Government. In this context, the Chancellor has set out a path to confirming plans for this year and next at the forthcoming B...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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