06 March 2024

Budget: West Midlands to get £15m culture funding boost

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The West Midlands Combined Authority is to get a £15m boost in funding for culture, heritage and investment projects in the region, the chancellor has announced.

Subject to a business case, this will provide £10m of funding to support culture and heritage projects, and £5m to drive inward investment in the region.

The Budget also confirmed the allocation of £100m of funding for culture projects, subject to business cases, ‘recognising the important role that culture and pride in place have to play in levelling up’.

In its Budget Report, The Treasury said this would ‘support nationally-significant cultural investments such as the British Library North in Leeds, National Railway Museum in York, and National Museums Liverpool, as well as the development of cultural projects in places previously prioritised for levelling up investment but which have not to date received levelling up funding, including in High Peak, Redditch and Erewash’.

To ensure every city in Scotland benefits from levelling up, the Government will work with the cities yet to receive an allocation – Perth and Dunfermline – to invest a shared £10m98 for cultural investment, the report added.

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