Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how he plans to measure the success of the delivery of proposals in the Government's Levelling Up White Paper.
The Levelling Up White Paper set out 12 ambitious new missions that are targeted, measurable and time-bound declarations of the progress needed to achieve levelling up. Missions are underpinned by a suite of headline and supporting metrics that will support monitoring and evaluation of progress against the missions and Levelling Up policies, and will provide a rich source of information on the evolution of spatial disparities in a broader levelling up context. The preliminary list of metrics is published in the Technical Annex alongside the White Paper. The Government will introduce a statutory obligation to report annually on progress towards meeting the Levelling Up missions, and expects these metrics to form a crucial input.
The ONS has also made publicly available a Levelling Up Subnational Data Explorer that will make it easier to extract insight from a wide range of local authority level data on economic and social outcomes in local areas.