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Future High Streets Fund

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Question for Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

UIN 41603, tabled on 29 April 2020

Question

Fleur Anderson
Labour
Putney
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent progress has been made under the Future High Streets Fund.

Answer

Mr Simon Clarke
Conservative
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
Commons

Answered on

4 May 2020

Local authorities have been working on business cases for the Future High Streets Fund (FHSF) for over eight months and we are pleased to see the progress that has been made to date. Additionally, all shortlisted places have now received feedback on their draft business cases to support councils to make clear and evidence-based funding proposals within their final business cases.

You may also wish to note that in response to a significant number of calls from local authorities whose staff have been mobilised to respond to Covid-19, we have granted an extension to the deadline. MHCLG officials were in direct contact with all shortlisted local authorities last month to inform them of this extension to the deadline.

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