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5 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
NEW: Our lawyers have tonight written to Government demanding it come clean over the Levelling Up Fund and what role Ministers had in tier allocations.

We've given them a week to provide the formula. Otherwise we intend to launch formal legal proceedings. rebrand.ly/luf-05-03-21-
31 areas placed in the priority group of tier 1 are not ranked in the top third most deprived places according to the Government’s own 2019 deprivation index.
4 regions, all represented by Tory MPs, are in tier 1 despite being ranked in the bottom third of English regions by deprivation score, including the Chancellor's own constituency.
Government's failure to publish the formula raises yet further serious and legitimate questions over its commitment to transparency - and whether it is using taxpayers' money as a political tool - rather than for their stated (important) objective of driving change.

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