Labour concerned over management of flagship levelling up scheme

Leaders of 24m Stocksbridge fund include local MP, her husband, and others with personal or business links to plans

Labour has raised concerns about the management of a flagship levelling up scheme after it emerged that decisions about one local 24m fund were primarily led by a group including the local MP, her husband, and others with personal or business links to some of the plans.

Documents also show that the towns fund board for Stocksbridge in South Yorkshire, co-chaired by Conservative MP Miriam Cates, met for eight months before members began filing details of personal interests, and that the scheme of governance was only published after more than a year.