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<p>No assessment has been made.</p><p> </p><p>However, the Department for Levelling
Up, Housing and Communities has set 12 ambitious levelling up ‘missions’ to anchor
ambition and provide clarity over the objectives of public policy for the next decade.
These include missions on skills and living standards.</p><p> </p><p>Missions will
deliver real change to peoples’ lives by improving living standards by spreading opportunities
and enhancing economic growth, restoring local pride, spreading opportunity and empowering
local leaders across the country.</p><p> </p><p>Missions will also serve as an anchor
for the private sector and civil society. This policy stability and consistency will
unleash innovation, investment and collaboration.</p><p> </p><p>To ensure transparency
and accountability, the missions are specific and measurable, and are supported by
a set of metrics.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
will report on progress towards delivering the missions through an annual report laid
before Parliament. The obligation to publish the annual report will be established
in statute, creating a regular point for Parliament and the public to debate and scrutinise
progress towards levelling up.</p>
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