Response A1346694

Response to request for information

Reference

A1346694

Response date

4 April 2022

Request

Could you tell me the amount the authority has spent on producing bids for funding through the The Community Renewal fund, Future High Streets, the Levelling Up Fund, and Towns Deals, since 2019? Please also provide a breakdown of this figure, for each scheme.

Can you also confirm whether the council hired external contractors to produce all or part of the bid in each instance?

Response

The Borough Council applied for Future High Streets Funding but did not pay for external advice for this as we did not get past the expression of interest phase.

We paid £4500 on an external contractor to support work on financial and economic case for a levelling up funding bid. We did not submit a bid in the end as we require more information to enable us to do this but we hope to submit in future rounds.