Sunderland Labour like to say that we haven't received a lot of funding from the Conservative Government and that all of the changes we are seeing in our city is just down to the Council.
Well here is a list of just some of the funding we have received from this Conservative Government, transforming our city like never before:
- £42 million for road resurfacing and city centre regeneration between 2023-25
- £25 million from the Future High Street Fund to help fund: Culture House, Elephant Tea Rooms restoration, Keel Square plus more
- £9 million Levelling Up Funding for a new skills academy
- £11 million from the Levelling Up fund for the housing on the Riverside
- £82.5 million for the Northern Spire Bridge
- £16.3 million for the Sunderland Station re-development was supported from the Transforming Cities Fund (The Conservatives didn't design it - only helped fund it!)
- £3.3 million from the Share Prosperity Fund
- £700,00o from a Culture Fund
- £3.25 Active Travel Funding
- £20 million for Washington in the Long Term Plan for Towns
- £100 million for Nissan Gigafactory PLUS £100 million to bring £2 billion of investment from Nissan to Sunderland
- And the recent ground-breaking Crown Works Film Studio was announced in the Spring Budget
This is just a few of the headline numbers.
This isn't about political point scoring - it's about setting the record straight.
Without this Conservative Government we wouldn't have the new Northern Spire bridge, the Crown Works studio would still be a distant dream and the city centre would not be undergoing the scale of regeneration we are currently seeing.