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

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government on 13 March (HC118194), whether the metrics on local cohesion announced in the Social Cohesion Action Plan, published on 9 March, will measure residential segregation; and for what reason they do not plan to update the Index of Dissimilarity.

The Social Cohesion Action Plan sets out the steps that Government is taking to improve social cohesion. The Social Cohesion Measurement Framework will be available to local government, civil society and impact investors across England to assess cohesion in a robust and comparable way. Work on the framework is underway and we will publish fuller details in due course. MHCLG does not own the Index of Dissimilarity and there are no plans to update the data produced and published by the Local Government Association.