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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Levelling Up Missions Annual Report 2024-25, published on 21 May 2025, whether her Department considered implementing the social fabric index target in the pride of place mission.

The Social Fabric Index ‘Adapted Relationship Thread’ was included as one of four headline metrics in the February 2024 Statement of Levelling Up Missions for the Pride in Place mission. The underlying data for the index is not publicly available, requiring the creation of a new measure with the think tank Onward who conceived the index. Following the July 2024 election this Government moved away from the levelling up agenda so the metric was not implemented. This government is instead tackling regional inequalities through its five central missions, as stated in the recently published Levelling Up Missions annual report.