Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Institution of Civil Engineers' Policy Position Statement entitled Defining the outcomes from levelling up, published on 16 June 2022, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the recommendation that the levelling up missions should be aligned with the UN Sustainable Goals.

The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill is designed to establish the framework for missions, not the content of missions themselves.

The framework provides ample opportunity to scrutinise the substance of missions against a range of Government policies including the Sustainable Development Goals.