Select committee: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Recommendation 9
Sixth Report - Funding for Levelling Up
Published 26 May 2023
Paragraph 31
Addressed to Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
We recommend that the DLUHC provides better guidance on how it will provide feedback on bids. The guidance must set out that feedback is timely, detailed, and consistent. This is especially important for levelling up funds as the quality of DLUHC’s feedback can hinder future applications which can be to the detriment of local communities. Feedback must also be made publicly available, where possible, so that communities can understand why bids are accepted or rejected. This new guidance should be widely disseminated and embedded in departmental practice so that in future those who have been unsuccessful in bidding are able to derive satisfactory material from what has otherwise been a dispiriting process.
From: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, Sixth Report - Funding for Levelling Up (HC 744), paragraph 31, 26 May 2023
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 26 October 2023 (deadline 26 July 2023).