Levelling up bids where funding was “snatched away at the last minute” were “a complete waste of energy, skills and knowledge”, an MP has blasted.
Anne McLaughlin said £500,000 of community officers and counsellors’ time in her constituency alone went into “preparing these bids to give our communities the best possible chance of securing funding”.
But the SNP MP said the Government "waved the carrot of levelling up funding in front of our noses only to snatch it away at the last minute".
