To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to page 9 of HM Treasury's document entitled Fixing the foundations: Public spending audit 2024-25, published on 29 July 2024, if she will list the (a) name and (b) value of the other small projects that her Department is cancelling.
Answered on
5 September 2024
In response to HMT’s savings commission, MHCLG has agreed £154 million from the department’s budgets. This comprises of several savings options on non-essential spending including:
- Cancelling the Investment Opportunity Fund, which had not started, saving £122 million;
- Cancelling the Antisocial behaviour (ASB) pilot programme, which had not started, saving a lifetime cost of £20 million. This Government believes there are more meaningful and better value-for-money interventions that would genuinely reduce incidents of ASB;
- Reducing funding for legal fees we no longer expect to arise from the previous Government’s approach to extremism by £5 million; and,
- Savings from the Cambridge Growth programme totalling £7 million, including reduced spend on consultancy activity.