Glasgow MPs have slammed the Government after a minister suggested that areas which received round one Levelling Up funding were prevented from getting funding in the second round.
Conservative Levelling Up minister Dehenna Davidson said in a Westminster Hall debate on Tuesday evening that when allocating the second fund, ministers "took account of which local authorities had received funding in the first round, noting that that would help to maximise the geographic spread of investment across rounds one and two."
Glasgow South West MP Chris Stephens said Davidson's words showed that the Levelling Up fund was "deeply tainted" while Glasgow North East MP Anne McLaughlin called the process "a scandal".
