Source · Select Committees · Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee
Recommendation 4
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The Government must be clear on what it means by “levelling up” if it is...
Recommendation
The Government must be clear on what it means by “levelling up” if it is to plan projects which lead to “levelling up” and measure progress against them. The Committee expects that the infrastructure strategy will be clear on what levelling up means in practice, how infrastructure investment will contribute to levelling up, and what data we can use to measure the success of the levelling up initiative over time. This Committee will examine the infrastructure strategy when it is published and put further questions to ministers.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government stated that the National Infrastructure Strategy (NIS), delayed until later this year, would set out further details on its long-term ambitions, including levelling up, thus committing to provide clarity on the term.
Summary of the government's response below — read the verbatim text to verify.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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This Government’s levelling up agenda will spread opportunity to every region and nation of the UK; ensuring everyone benefits from growth in the UK. It targets the long-standing economic and social disparities across the country, giving everyone growing up in this country the opportunity they need to succeed. nations to succeed, decarbonising the economy and will set out further details about the government’s long term ambitions for infrastructure and the role of this in the levelling up agenda at the Spending Review and in the National Infrastructure Strategy (NIS) this autumn.
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