The Department for Education said today that it would provide the £134m needed to complete the 57 remaining flagship youth centres between 2011 and 2013. But in October 2009 Loughton said that he wanted further investment in existing established youth projects instead of the money being "concentrated in a few flagship schemes".
However, he decided to go ahead with funding the youth centres after seeing the difference that some of the completed projects had made to their communities. "I’ve had two criticisms of Myplace in the past, both of which we are now addressing. One that it is spending a significant amount of money on a relatively small number of big projects, which is why I have stressed in the letter that we have written to Myplace projects that we want them to be as far reaching as possible," said Loughton.
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