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Queen's Speech: 'levelling up' let down

Sir Stephen Houghton says we must not see blame being levelled on those areas who are not able to meet the levelling up mission targets – 'when it is in fact that local areas are not being given a penny by the Government to be able to reach them'.

A hundred days on from the publication of the Levelling Up White Paper we finally saw some more detail on what the agenda would look like when put into law.

This is meant to be something that will be ‘at the heart' of the Government's agenda for the next decade – according to the briefing note issued for the Queen's Speech.

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