Most urban areas in the UK have been badly affected by the economic hit from COVID-19, but not received money from the government's new Levelling Up Fund, according to new research.
Sky News has been looking at the data 📈
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Sky News has been looking at the data 📈
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Sky News analysis found that only 15% of the new funding went to the 25% of areas most affected by the pandemic. 
@UoNEconomic’s Prof John Gathergood says this is because the government based its decisions on old data even though the pandemic has "substantially changed the picture."
"If money isn't going into the right areas... there won't be levelling up in the right way across the UK.”
"If money isn't going into the right areas... there won't be levelling up in the right way across the UK.”
The result is that many of the hardest-hit places with the highest existing levels of deprivation missed out on funding – the top right areas on this chart.
Read more here: news.sky.com/story/levellin…
In case you missed the first article in this series, we looked at how effectively the Levelling Up Fund is being targeted at the forgotten parts of the UK.
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