1. How many bids did you submit for Round 1 Levelling Up Funding, by the deadline of midday 18 June 2021?
None. The Levelling Up White Paper has only just been published and the process for bidding for funds outlined at a high level. We anticipate more detailed guidance being forthcoming by the end of March and we anticipate a bid deadline sometime in the summer of 2022.

The list of successful bids is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/levelling-up-fund-first-round-successful-bidders

2. How many of these bids submitted for Round 1 Levelling Up Funding were rejected?
None.

3. For each bid:
a) Was it an individual bid, package bid or joint bid with another LA
b) If joint bid please specify the other LA / LAs
c) If joint bid which LA was the lead LA?
d) What was the value of capital grant being requested from the UK Government (Section 3c of the Levelling Up Fund Application Form)?
e) How much of the bid was themed as Transport / Regeneration and Town Centre / Cultural (Section 3d of the Levelling Up Fund Application Form)? Please express these as a percentage, as per the application form.
f) Was the bid formally supported by an MP as a priority bid (Section 4.1a of the Levelling Up Fund Application Form)? If so, which MP and constituency?
g) Was the bid given “wider MP (non-priority MP support)” as described in Levelling Up Technical Note, Table 1 - Stakeholder Engagement and Support? If so, which MP or MPs and constituency/constituencies?
Not applicable.