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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 8 June 2022 to Question 11601, on Freeports, if he will publish the agreed (a) data indicators and (b) baseline data that will form the basis for the monitoring and evaluation of the Freeports Programme.

The Freeports Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) strategy was published 6th May 2023. A subsequent update was published in the Freeports annual report, including an executive summary of the Framework at Annex C. Outputs of the department M&E activities will be published in subsequent annual reports.