Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Covid 20-21 Tax Income Guarantee Scheme.

The Government is committed to ensuring tax payers money is spent effectively. All departmental expenditure is made in line with the principles set out in Managing Public Money and the Green Book, and we regularly consider the performance of programmes to ensure they are delivering for communities across the country.

Also, in November 2022, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities published its first evaluation strategy, which sets out our commitment to undertake and learn from evaluation activity across our policy areas. It outlines evaluation activity that is already underway and future plans. The annexes provide a list of ongoing and planned work, as well as a list of published evaluations. In addition, we are listing all new commissioned research projects, from January 2023 on gov.uk website, and aim to publish completed research outputs promptly on gov.uk.