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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Laura Parnaby

Government accused by MPs of squandering billions of pounds on ‘levelling up’

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A group of cross-party MPs has accused ministers of squandering billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money on ill-thought-out “levelling up” plans and through the unfair allocation of funding.

The Public Affairs Committee (PAC) has described the way in which the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) has been allocating large sums of money as “unsatisfactory”.

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