Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Public Expenditure
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to page 9 of HM Treasury's document entitled Fixing the foundations: Public spending audit 2024-25, published on 29 July 2024, if she will list the (a) name and (b) value of the other small projects that her Department is cancelling.
Answered by Alex Norris
In response to HMT’s savings commission, MHCLG has agreed £154 million from the department’s budgets. This comprises of several savings options on non-essential spending including:
- Cancelling the Investment Opportunity Fund, which had not started, saving £122 million;
- Cancelling the Antisocial behaviour (ASB) pilot programme, which had not started, saving a lifetime cost of £20 million. This Government believes there are more meaningful and better value-for-money interventions that would genuinely reduce incidents of ASB;
- Reducing funding for legal fees we no longer expect to arise from the previous Government’s approach to extremism by £5 million; and,
- Savings from the Cambridge Growth programme totalling £7 million, including reduced spend on consultancy activity.
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