One of Nottinghamshire's Conservative MPs says the Levelling Up Fund is "inefficient" after figures revealed councils across the county have spent £830,000 submitting bids to it. The fund involves councils across the country submitting bids to recieve money for specific projects and was announced by then Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
There have so far been two rounds of the Levelling Up Fund, with Nottinghamshire having received a collective £95million of investment from it. But there have been calls for a rethink of the way in which the fund operates given the cost of submitting project bids. The £830,000 figure covers Nottingham City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council, as well as the seven district and boroughs, across both rounds of the Levelling Up Fund.
Ben Bradley is the Conservative MP for Mansfield and the Leader of Nottinghamshire County Council. Councillor Bradley said Nottinghamshire is "net hundreds of million of pounds up" due to the Government's funding schemes.
