Question to the Leader; Last year Breckland Council submitted two funding applications to the Government’s Towns Fund to provide much needed support for both Thetford and Dereham Town Centres. Sadly, both those applications were unsuccessful. Yesterday, the National Audit Office published a report into the Governments decision making process, criticising how bids were selected, the report revealed the scores for all bids that were submitted, the Thetford application scored more highly than both the Norwich and Ipswich bids which were awarded funding and the Dereham bid scored more highly that Norwich.
It has been noted that 2/3rds of the successful applications were in Tory marginal parliamentary seats ahead of last year’s general election.
Will the Leader commit to writing to the Secretary of state to see why our Breckland towns were overlooked for this funding, despite their high scores in the assessment process?
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