Recommendation 13

Significant elements of the Government’s levelling up agenda will be delivered through the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC). However, once the increases in social care funding are excluded, the spending power for this department’s activities are being kept flat or falling. If the levelling up agenda is to be carried out in a sustainable way, it may be that this will need to be reflected in the spending power of the DLUHC. This Committee awaits this Department’s forthcoming White Paper to understand how levelling up will be measured and achieved within the budgets announced. (Paragraph 79) Individual Budget measures