Cardiff Crossrail, a new engineering campus in Blaenau Gwent, and new cycle routes through Conwy Valley are among some of the local projects across Wales awarded a share of £2.1 billion from the UK Government’s Levelling Up Fund. A total of 11 projects in Wales have been allocated over £208 million from round two of the funding pot.
The investment follows the allocation of levelling up cash to 10 schemes in Wales in 2021. A key theme on the Conservatives' election campaign in 2019, the 'levelling up' plan for the UK was unveiled in February last year and its policies are targeted to be achieved by 2030.
Today, the UK government has announced that 11 schemes in Wales are to received funding in the second round. However, a spokesperson for the Welsh Government said Wales had "less say over less money" and that every decision on Levelling Up funding for local projects had been taken in Whitehall.
