SNP MPs slammed the UK Government's "grubby, greedy" Levelling Up Fund in the House of Commons on Thursday.
Conservative Minister for Housing and Planning Lucy Frazer answered questions after the second round of levelling up funding was announced on Wednesday evening.
Ten Scottish infrastructure projects landed more than £177million from the fund. It was part of £2 billion awarded to more than 100 projects across the UK.
The Scottish projects which secured funding included £19.4m to demolish the A78 dual carriageway to transform Greenock town centre and £9m for the demolition and regeneration of two shopping centres in Cumbernauld.
But some Scottish MPs were annoyed at the amount which had been allocated to Scotland.
Some believed that Tory areas were favoured with Catterick Garrison in Rishi Sunak’s wealthy North Yorkshire seat receiving £19 million to regenerate the high street.
SNP's Patricia Gibson said: "Scotland’s share of the funding is £177 million out of £2 billion—some 8.5%. That proves that the distribution of the funding is not needs-based at all and therefore, by definition, not levelling up.
"Around £1.1 billion of the £1.6 billion total levelling-up funding in England has been awarded to areas where there is a Tory MP or a majority of Tory MPs.
"The Chancellor’s constituency, one of the most affluent in the UK, has been successful; my own constituency of North Ayrshire and Arran, one of the most economically challenged constituencies in the UK, has not been successful in this round."
Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill MP Steven Bonnar said it was "staggering" that his area had not received any funding.
He said: "In true grubby, greedy fashion, levelling up vastly benefits Tory-voting areas across the UK. Of the £1.6 billion going to English councils, £1.1 billion is going to areas represented by Tory Members, and Scottish councils are receiving only £177 million.
"There is nothing for Coatbridge, which made a fantastic bid, and nothing for our neighbours in the city of Glasgow: that is staggering. Does the Minister not agree that grubby pork-barrel politics is not levelling up Scotland, but leveraging us out of this Union?"
Other Scots were happy with the funding that they had received.
Orkney and Shetland Lib Dem MP Alistair Carmichael said the £26.8m provided for a Fair Isle ferry had given "hope for a future to one of the remotest and most economically and socially fragile communities in the country."
SNP's Alan Brown tweeted that he was "delighted" about the £20m awarded to Kilmarnock for a new park and the refurbishment of the Palace Theatre and Grand Hall.
Stirling MP Alyn Smith welcomed the £19.1m for the regeneration of the Forthside area of the city but said it was "little compared to the overall Brexit damage."
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