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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of commissioning independent scrutiny on the effectiveness of the delivery of the levelling up agenda.

The statutory duty to publish an annual report on the Levelling Up missions will report on progress against all the missions, using the published list of metrics that support each mission. The initial set of these metrics have already been published in the Levelling Up White Paper and will be refined over time. The analysis included in the annual report will be based on these metrics

By publishing the missions and supporting metrics, we are providing all the information necessary for Parliament and the public to scrutinise the missions as well

The Levelling Up Advisory Council will also provide independent and expert advice to the Government on the missions.