Rishi Sunak's Richmond constituency to receive £19m as latest successful levelling up fund bidders revealed

Labour criticised the fund, accusing the government of presiding over a 'Hunger Games-style contest where communities are pitted against one another'

Rishi Sunak has announced that more than £2bn will be invested in more than 100 projects across the UK through the levelling up fund - with £19m going to his own constituency.promised the latest round of funding would"build a future of optimism" by delivering economic growth and new jobs across the UK.

A spreadsheet of the 111 successful bids released by the Department for Levelling Up shows that £19,008,679 has been granted to a project in Mr Sunak's Richmond constituency after an application by Richmondshire district council. Among the other projects is the Eden Project North in Morecambe, which received £50m for the regeneration project designed to transform the Lancashire town's seafront.

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