Local government has asked Whitehall to reprofile cash from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), allowing greater flexibility over when money is spent following delays to allocations.

Ministers at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) have still not signed-off the first tranche of cash from the three-year £2.6bn UKSPF – a central pillar of the Government's levelling up agenda.