Sunday, May 5
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Levelling up funds based on old data

It’s been two years since the government was elected with a mandate to level up the left-behind parts of the UK.

But Sky Data can reveal that the first round of levelling up money to be awarded was based on old data which didn’t consider the damaging impact of COVID on local economies and now many of the most deprived places which are missing out, are in big cities.

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